checkroll

noun

Etymology

From check + roll.

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. compounded as checkroll — “check + roll

Definitions

  1. A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.

  2. a list of labourers

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for checkroll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA