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ROUNDS
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English
English : patronymic from Round.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.
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a.
Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
v. i.
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.
v. i.
The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
n.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
n.
A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
v. i.
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
v. i.
A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
n.
Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
n.
One of the rounds of a ladder.
v.
t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
n.
One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
n.
A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
n.
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
pl.
of Roundsman