The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

2. (Winchester).—A medium-sized stone.

Rod-maker, subs. (Winchester).—The man who made the rods used in Bibling (q.v.).

Rogging, subs. (Stonyhurst).—Brook-fishing.

Roke, verb (Winchester).—To stir: as a fire, a liquid, &c.

1375. Percival [Halliwell]. Were they wighte, were they woke, Alle that he tille stroke He made their bodies to ROKE.

1383. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Yet in our ashen cold is fyr i-REKE.

1847. Halliwell, Arch. Words, s.v. Roke.... To shake; to roll ... to stir liquids.

Roker, subs. (Winchester).—A ruler; a stick; a poker. See Roke. Flat-roker = a flat ruler.

Roll, subs. (Winchester).—A list of names.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 230. The ROLL par excellence is the list of the boys who have passed their examination for New College, and of those who are to come in to Winchester. There is also a ROLL printed every November, which contains the name of every one connected with the School, from the Warden to the Choristers. The lists from which the Præfects of Hall and Chapel called names; the papers on which the names of the absentees on such occasions were written; the papers on which were written the “Standing up”; the lists of the boys who had leave out on a Saints’ day; the papers put on the Master’s desk when boys wished to go out of school; those handed to the Master at the close of School by the Bible-Clerk or Ostiarius with the names of the delinquents, and many other similar papers, were all called ROLLS.