rowling
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See also: Rowling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rowling
- (archaic) present participle and gerund of rowl (“roll”)
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 670–1:
- There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top / Belch'd fire and rowling smoak