† round-alln.
Obsolete. rare.
A type of backward somersault (see quot.).
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1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 104/2 Doing..round-alls (that's throwing yourself backwards on to your hands and back again to your feet).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1861- stop press
- stop short
- stop short of
- stop sign
- stop signal
- stop someone's clock
- stop the breath more rarely the wind of
- stop the breath of
- stop the cable
- stop the clock
- stop the mouth of
- stop the press
- stop the rot
- stop the show
- stop the tide
- stop thief!
- stop time
- stop traffic
- stop two gaps with one bush
- stop up
- stop upon a dime
- stop volley
- stop word
- stop, to fill , to supply a gap
- stop, to fill in, to supply a gap