Noun
A felon or whitlow.
Usage- US usage
- Dated
- Informal
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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.
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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.
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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.
A route that loops around local rail yards for the transfer of goods (and sometimes used to turn cars around).
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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.
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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.
A track arrangement (usually a loop) that allows mine cars to be redirected without reversing.
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As the pithead (Fig. 15) had not been designed for large wide gauge cars it was necessary to replace the usual runround with a traverser.
We are moving away from the normal type of runround.
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A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.
A circular area or platform on a ship.
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From the runround to the ground there are 11 gerts. From the runround to the crow's nest there are 6 gerts.
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[…] runround of tankers, supertankers and big slups of all types, this new dock is 80 feet long by 150 feet wide , and provision has been made for lengthening a to 1,900 feet.
This first ship had a small geophysical-type drilling rig mounted over the side of the ship with a steel grid runround for the roughnecks, who stood in knee-deep water while making connections or pulling the drill string.
A woman's shoe with a rounded toe, flexible sole, and turned upper popular in the 19th century for dancing.
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The gentlemen always wore "pumps" as they were called, that is, very light turned slippers without innersole or heel, the soles of the best specimens, being well pounded to make them soft and pliable; while the ladies wore a light shoe called a "runround," or "springheel," usually held snug in place by long ribbons passing herring-bone-like around the ankles.
Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called.
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Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.
A quick tour of inspection.
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These walls, so far as we could judge from a hasty runround, were well furnished with wall-trees, with an abundant crop, well set, and swelling off.
"We have just had a little run-round in the boat,” he explained, as they stepped ashore.