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ROLL. A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the 
form of a pipe or tube. Jacob, L. D. h.t. 
     2. In early times, before paper came in common use, parchment was the 
substance employed for making records, and, as the art of bookbinding was 
but little used, economy suggested as the most convenient mode of adding 
sheet to sheet, as were found requisite, and they were tacked together in 
such manner that the whole length might be wound up together in the form of 
spiral rolls. 
     3. Figuratively it signifies the records of a court or office. In 
Pennsylvania the master of the rolls was an officer in whose office were 
recorded the acts of the legislature. 1 Smith's Laws, 46.