scroll : Idioms & Phrases

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dead sea scrolls

  • noun (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s
    • the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus
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Linen scroll

  • (Arch.) See under Linen.
Webster 1913

Linen scroll, Linen pattern

  • (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.
Webster 1913

Scroll chuck

  • (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws.
Webster 1913

Scroll saw

  • noun fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
    jigsaw; fretsaw.
WordNet
  • . See under Saw.
Webster 1913

Vitruvian scroll

  • (Arch.), a name given to a peculiar pattern of scrollwork, consisting of convolved undulations. It is used in classical architecture.
Webster 1913