A roll of parchment or paper containing writing, or to move text vertically on a computer screen. As a verb, it means to move through content by rolling or sliding.
From Old French 'escroe,' a variant of 'escroue' meaning 'a roll of parchment,' ultimately from Germanic origins related to 'shred.' The word originally referred to the physical rolled manuscripts before the invention of bound books. The computer sense emerged in the 1960s as a metaphor for the rolling motion.
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