Meaning

(US, pathology, informal, dated) A felon or whitlow..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US, pathology, informal, dated) A felon or whitlow.
2. (rail transport) A route that loops around local rail yards for the transfer of goods (and sometimes used to turn cars around).
3. (mining) A track arrangement (usually a loop) that allows mine cars to be redirected without reversing.
4. (nautical) A circular area or platform on a ship.
5. A woman's shoe with a rounded toe, flexible sole, and turned upper popular in the 19th century for dancing.
6. A quick tour of inspection.
7. 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.

Two sidings – one a runround loop – were laid alongside the down platform at Severn Tunnel Junction station.

Laid as a single line, the WHR was provided with a runround loop at Dinas on the site of the former LNWR line, and two platforms were constructed.

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• runrounds

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