Roulers

American  

[roo-lairs, roo-ler] / ruˈlɛərs, ruˈlɛr /

noun

1. a city in NW Belgium: battles 1914, 1918.

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Roulers British  

/ ruːˈlɛəz, rulɛrs /

noun

1. Flemish name: Roeselare.  a city in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: electronics. Pop: 55 273 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

One flotilla bombarded the railroad between Ypres and Roulers, near Passchendaele, tearing up the track for several hundred yards.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

We were marched to Roulers, which we reached well after dark.

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Pearson, George

Its capital is Bruges, and the principal towns of the province are Ostend, Courtrai, Ypres and Roulers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

As we approached Roulers, we found the town alive with people who had assembled to welcome that which they regarded as an army of deliverance from the dreaded Germans.

From With The Immortal Seventh Division by Kennedy, Edmund John

"Von Mahl," repeated Tam slowly, "and he will be belongin' to the Roulers lot, A'm thinkin'?"

From Tam o' the Scoots by Wallace, Edgar