noun

1. a roll of parchment, paper, etc., usually with writing or pictures on it
2. an ancient book in the form of a rolled manuscript
3. a list of names; roll; roster the scroll of fame
4. anything having the form of a partly unrolled or loosely rolled sheet of paper, as the volute of an Ionic capital, or the ornamentally rolled end of the neck of a violin, etc.

Etymology: ME scrowle, altered (? by assoc. with rowle, var. of rolle, roll) < scrowe < OFr escroue: see escrow

intransitive verb, transitive verb