round turn
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of round turn
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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"Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round, turn me round, turn me around," they sang before the Freedom Riders exited the bus.
From Reuters ● May 25, 2011
"He said it had brought him up with a round turn."
From The Crime Doctor by Ernest William Hornung
My messmate’s narrative brought me up with a round turn, and I felt my heart working like the tiller-ropes in a gale of wind.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
The Squire had an uneasy feeling that he had given his younger daughters too much rope, and should have to bring them up with a round turn one of these days.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby causing the cables to take half a round turn on each other.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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