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

By this time, however, the 22nd Brigade had advanced some six miles from Zonnebeke to the neighbourhood of the straight road and the parallel railway which connect Roulers and Menin.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.

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

Towards the east run two main highways—the more northerly leading to Roulers, the more southerly to Menin, and thence to Lille.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by Parrott, James Edward

The brigade-major also informed us that British cavalry were reported to be at Roulers, north-east of Ypres—but that wasn't official.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike