Word info

round in

Verb

Meaning

(nautical) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.

(US, dated) To round up (cattle) by riding around them.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. Ray Bradbury

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath. Roald Amundsen

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals. Lin Yutang

A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel; The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . . William Wordsworth

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