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

The Royal Irish Rifles worked up the Roulers railway to the level crossing, and captured two German officers and thirty prisoners.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip

While the British were gaining ground their naval aeroplanes were attacking this line from the sky, dropping tons of explosives on the Thourout and Roulers junctions and on the German base at Ostend.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

Indeed so little do I trouble that I mistake Courtrai for Roulers, but it makes but little difference.

From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul

On the 14th it was reported that about 10,000 German troops from Antwerp were moving on Bruges and Roulers, and that another German Division from Antwerp had reached Courtrai.

From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres

He was quite cool about it, however, a worthy namesake of the great Marshal who had fought so valiantly beneath the walls of Roulers a few miles away.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister