round

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

v. trans.


contraction of the verb to round-up, to bring a scattered herd together; used inall grazing districts, and common in the Western United States.

1894. `The Argus,' June 23, p. 11, col. 4:

«A friend of mine who has spent many a night rounding the mobon lonely Queensland cattle camps where hostile blacks were asthick as dingoes has a peculiar aversion to one plain coveredwith dead gums, because the curlews always made him feelmiserable when crossing it at night.»

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