roil - What does it mean?

Verb

(en-verb)

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of

* To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles

* To roil a spring.

To annoy; to make someone angry.

* R. North

That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.

To bubble, seethe.

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|title=Internal Combustion |chapter=2 citation |passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}

(obsolete) To wander; to roam.

(obsolete|UK|dialect|intransitive) To romp.

(Halliwell)

(Webster 1913)