runround
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A route that loops around local rail yards for the transfer of goods (and sometimes used to turn cars around).
noun
A track arrangement (usually a loop) that allows mine cars to be redirected without reversing.
noun
A woman's shoe with a rounded toe, flexible sole, and turned upper popular in the 19th century for dancing.
noun
A quick tour of inspection.
noun
Alternative form of runaround (any sense).
Example Sentences
- "This time it was my "runround;" and before she took off her bonnet, she had brought me a cup of ashes and water, and put my finger in soak."
- "The ulcerative form resembles ingrowing nail, but in the syyphilitic disease the matrix is usually involved first, and not secondarily, as in ordinary ingrowing nail, or in common runround."
- "Runround is always the result of an injury which may be very trivial."
- "I have a horse that had a runround on its hoof, about four months ag . A new hoof has grown out about two inches, but it is still sore at back of hoof and pus forms in the parts affected, and sometimes the leg swells."
- "I have a very painful thumb, a runround has caused it to ache violently, so I must close."
- "So far I had shared driving on station-pilots, runround trips, empty coaches and suburban passenger jobs."