Round
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ROUND, adj., adv.1, sb. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. Amer. and Aus. Also in forms raand, rahnd Yks.; raind Chs.1 s.Chs.1; reawnd Chs.1; roon Sc. Cum.4; roond Per. Nhb.1; roun Sc. (Jam.) [Sc. n.Cy. run(d, rūn(d, w.Yks. rānd, Lan. rēnd, Midl. round, raund, s.Cy. reund.]
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- The two furrows made when a piece of land is ploughed by working up one way and back another. Dev. Reports Provinc. (1884) 19. 14. A turn. w.Sc. Ye maun bide yer roun (Jam.).
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pl. Obs. The circuit made by labourers out of work when, under the old Poor Law, they were passed round from farmer to farmer; gen. in phr. on the rounds, or to go the rounds; see below. Nhp.1 Oxf. Efforts were made to keep the men off the rates by the system of going the ‘Rounds,’ that is to say, a man out of work was kept in turn by the farmers and passed on from one to another, receiving 1 s. a day from the parish, Stapleton Three Parishes (1893) 167. Bdf. The increase of population has caused a deficiency of employment, which is so remarkable in some seasons, that a great proportion of the labourers ‘go the rounds.’ When a labourer can obtain no employment, he applies to the acting overseer, from whom he passes on to the different farmers all round the parish, being employed by each of them after the rate of one day for every £ 20 rent. The allowance to a labourer on the rounds is commonly 2 d. per day below the pay of other labourers. Boys receive from 4 d. to 6d. per day on the rounds, Batchelor Agric. (1813) 608. Hence Roundsman, sb. a labourer who ‘goes the rounds.’ Nhp.1 Oxf. The following agreement was come to concerning the Roundsmen, at a general meeting of parishioners in 1799: ‘All persons coming to the overseers to be employed by the yard-land shall take a ticket from the overseer to the employer for the payment of his or her money, and for the said persons to come at proper hours or otherwise to be paid according to their hours,’ Stapleton Three Parishes (1893) 280. Bdf. It sometimes happens that farmers refuse to take in a roundsman, Batchelor Agric. (1813) 609.
A turn once up and down a ploughed field. Shr.1 ...
To ridge up land, to trench it. Som. (W.F.R.)
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