scroll

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scroll/skrəʊl/

▶noun

• 1 a roll of parchment or paper for writing or painting on.

  ■ an ancient book or document written on a scroll.

• 2 an ornamental design or carving resembling a partly unrolled scroll of parchment.

▶verb

• 1 move displayed text or graphics on a computer screen in order to view different parts of them.

• 2 cause to move like paper rolling or unrolling.

– derivatives
scrollable adjective,
scroller noun,
scrolling noun.

– origin ME: alt. of obs. scrow ‘roll’, shortening of escrow.