Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Round-shouldered; humpbacked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Round-shoulded.

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Examples

  • There were trees scattered through the lot, and small rocks just rounded off with snow, and larger ones with a pitch in front, and diversities of soil that gave a wavy huckle-backed character to the entire field.

    Margaret 1851

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