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Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  2. noun a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
  3. verb move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen

Etymology

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

In classic literature

Synonyms

coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre

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