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scroll

  [skrohl]
–noun
1. a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, esp. one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
2. something, esp. an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper or having a spiral or coiled form.
3. a list, roll, roster, or schedule.
4. (in Japanese and Chinese art) a painting or text on silk or paper that is either displayed on a wall (hanging scroll) or held by the viewer (hand scroll) and is rolled up when not in use. Compare kakemono, makimono.
5. the curved head of a violin or other bowed instrument.
6. a note, message, or other piece of writing.
–verb (used with object)
7. to cut into a curved form with a narrow-bladed saw.
8. Computers. to move (text) up, down, or across a display screen, with new text appearing on the screen as old text disappears.
–verb (used without object)
9. Computers. to move text vertically or horizontally on a display screen in searching for a particular section, line, etc.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME scrowle; b. scrow, aph. var. of escrow and rowle roll

Related forms:
scroll-like, adjective
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Word Origin & History

scroll  (n.)
1405, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c.1225), from Anglo-Fr. escrowe, O.Fr. escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frank. *skroda "shred" (cf. M.Du. schroode "shred," O.H.G. scrot "piece cut off," Ger. Schrot "log, block, small shot"), from P.Gmc. *skrautha "something cut." The verb meaning "to write down in a scroll" is recorded from 1606; sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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