This very common word has joined the concordance in honor of its unusual use in the apple-barrel song of Chapter 9:
[09.049] Roll – roll – roll – roll,
roll-roll-rolling down the hole!
In the top line, the words “roll” are separated by spaces and hyphens, a repetitive phrase; but my goodness! roll-roll-rolling has no spaces! It is one word, and the OED assures us that the reduplicative is “a word form created by reduplication”. I think that such a reduplicative even qualifies “roll-roll-rolling” as a vocable and sound play.
- 01.066 Send them down the hall to roll!
- 01.066 Send them down the hall to roll!
- 02.070 and rolling nearly into the fire
- 04.004 and go rolling
- 04.036 and rolling
- 04.043 – for dwarves can roll along at a tremendous pace,
- 04.051 and the hobbit rolled off his shoulders into the blackness,
- 06.040 rolled away from their feet;
- 06.040 and rolling;
- 06.065 and unless they rolled over quick they were soon all
- 06.065 Very soon all about the glade wolves were rolling over
- 07.035 He laughed a great rolling laugh,
- 07.093 in rolling round drum-shaped sections of logs,
- 07.094 Beorn in his deep rolling voice told tales
- 07.099 and like a tide it roared and rolled;
- 07.108 and had rolled down with a bump from the platform on to the floor.
- 08.104 and rolled off the branch dead.
- 08.108 that he just rolled off the branch
- 09.048 they answered rolling the barrels to the opening.
- 09.049 Roll – roll – roll – roll,
- 09.049 roll-roll-rolling down the hole!
- 09.054 was being rolled to the doors!
- 09.055 the barrel rolled round
- 09.059 roll off again
- 09.060 a round-bellied pony that was always thinking of rolling on the grass.
- 10.034 and it rolled loud
- 12.076 The dragon rolled over.
- 13.008 and rolled headlong into the hall!
- 14.033 in the roll of the benefactors of our town;
- 16.047 in turn rolled himself up
- 17.040 Winter thunder on a wild wind rolled roaring up
- 17.046 rolling away to the South-East;
“reduplicative, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
[…] [01.066] Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl; Pound them up with a thumping pole; And when you’ve finished, if any are whole, Send them down the hall to roll! […]
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