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  1. n. A full encirclement of an object with rope.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Naut.) one turn of a rope round a timber, a belaying pin, etc.

Examples

  • “But I had forgotten my Horace, I suppose, because a phrase I had not read or thought about for forty years suddenly stared up at me from the page and brought me up with a round turn — Dulce ridentem lalagen amdbo, Dulce loquentem.”

    A Town Like Alice

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  1. wind
  2. twirl
  3. slue
  4. turn
  5. round
  6. convert
  7. gyrate
  8. reel
  9. tour
  10. swivel
  11. wend
  12. loggerhead
  1. gyre
  2. circumgyrate
  3. rove
  4. trendle
  5. trochilic
  6. wellhole
  7. whim
  8. bitter
  9. bout
  10. gimlet
  11. querl
  12. betrend
  1. caracole
  2. to brace about
  3. giro
  4. dance
  5. belay
  6. revolve
  7. roll
  8. rotate
  9. round turn
  10. run
  11. screw
  12. spin
  1. stitch
  2. succula
  3. swing
  4. swivel joint
  5. traverse
  6. trill
  7. twine
  8. whirl
  9. winding
  10. box
  11. circle
  12. come
  1. drumhead
  2. flank
  3. hurl
  4. jet
  5. meander
  6. penny
  7. reverse
  8. roundhouse
  9. friction-wrench
  10. header
  11. troll
  12. turning-steel
  1. veer
  2. well

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