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I. transitive verb (-dered; ~ing) see: cylinder Date: 1513 to press (as cloth, rubber, or paper) between rollers or plates in order to smooth and glaze or to thin into sheets, ~er noun II. noun Date: 1688 a machine for ~ing something, III. noun Etymology: Persian qalandar Date: 1621 a member of a Sufic order of wandering mendicant dervishes