roundhead
/ɹˈaʊndhˌɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Roundhead (“parliament supporter in the English Civil War”)
noun
A circular platform at the end of a pier or breakwater.
Example Sentences
- "The roundhead screw and its fraternal twins, the button head and pan head screws, have a head that is flat on the bottom and hemispherical on top."
- "You can use flat-head screws and plug the holes, or you can use roundhead blue screws and let the heads project."
- "You roundhead whore, sock it up, or me will kill you, begar."
- "Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead ; and so he escaped."
- "The parliament, which either could not or would not be prorogued till the end of October, busied itself exceedingly regarding the queen's residence with her children, and testified the utmost jealousy of her confessor, father Phillipss, who underwent several examinations; and may portentous hints were dropped by the roundhead orators in the house of commons respecting the queen's establishment of Capuchins at Somerset-house."
- "He added that they 'fell upon all that have short hair' and cried out, 'A roundhead! A roundhead!'"