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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Transoms Each of them has nevertheless a double curve, which is partly vertical, and partly horizontal, with regard to its situation in the ship. The former of these is called..the round-up, and the latter the round-aft.

1833 T. Richardson Mercantile Marine Archit. 8 Short curved line for the round-up and round-aft of the wing transom.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xx. 431 While the frames and keel of the ship are in progress, beam moulds, with the round-up and lengths marked on them, are given out to the workmen to guide them in making beams.

1918 H. C. Estep How Wooden Ships are Built ix. 79/1 The versed sine of this arch is termed the round-up of the beam.

1955 C. N. Longridge Anat. Nelson's Ships i. v. 81 If it were an ordinary beam with the average round-up, the heel of the bowsprit would hit against it and would not be able to reach its housing.

1981 D. Pope Life in Nelson's Navy iii. 39 Each beam being slightly rounded along the top to give the deck a camber, or ‘round up’, of six inches on the gun deck.

2000 Brit. Columbia Hist. News (Nexis) Mar. 24 A proper wing transom..was fabricated..with the proper roundup fore and aft and athwartship.

1856 J. Blackwood Let. in I. C. Clarke Six Portraits (1935) 154 The round-up is perhaps the lamest part of the story.

1898 Critic (N.Y.) Sept. 205 Though the final ‘round-up’ is what an Englishman might call a bit sudden, the narrative pleasantly piques curiosity.

1910 C. M. Depew Orations, Addr., & Speeches 250 In the round-up of the transaction the railroad has enlarged its equipment and facilities,..and the country is richer.

2000 A. Doff & C. Jones Lang. in Use (new ed.) xix. 81 As a round-up, ask students to tell their stories.

1879 Daily Register-Call (Central City, Colorado) 11 June (headline) Final round-up... The skeleton of a Cheyenne Indian's victim found on a cattle round-up.

1884 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 13 Sept. I measured myself, an' I hope Gabriel 'll miss me at the final roundup if I hadn't grown six inches.

1891 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 1 Mar. 13/5 After the last round up please send this ring to Annie Yubanks... Tell her her father died sorry he was not a better man.

1905 E. Bicknell Ralph's Scrapbk. 244 We hope when the last round-up comes you'll get what yer deserves fer being so kind to us undeserving cowboys.

1940 Hoofs & Horns Dec. 11/1 Tom Mix..has laid down his honors..and taken the sunset trail that leads to the Last Roundup.

1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iii. iv. 257 When Rocket suddenly turned with a whip of the handlebars and started onto a trail into the woods, I feared I was fast approaching the last roundup.

2004 D. MacCulloch Reformation 561 Many were attracted to a radical solution affirming the sleep of individual souls until God's final roundup.

1879 Omaha (Nebraska) Herald 13 Aug. 8/3 The marshal is determined to continue the round-up until every tramp is in jail.

1927 A. Christie Big Four v. 54 A short time ago a round-up was made of certain crooks and gunmen.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Nov. 6/1 The collection today will be of all tins accumulated since June 9, when the last such roundup took place.

1999 Independent 22 July i. 14/1 Members of the Falun Gong..began their protests late on Tuesday night in cities across China after the round-up and arrest of key sect members.

2006 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 Sept. (Herald-Times ed.) a3/4 The roundup invites people..to drop off their unused or expired medications.

1880 Harper's Mag. Feb. 380/2 We old fellows have a round up 'most every year in Denver.

1887 A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 270 We'll have a round-up of your old friends.

1895 Daily News 16 Sept. 6/4 The good bishop had a family reunion or ‘round up’ on the lawn of one of his estates.

1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners iv. 70 An unexpected invitation to read a paper at the first monthly round-up of the University Club.

1997 E. Rathbone-McCuan & D. L. Locke in S. L. A. Straussner & E. Zelvin Gender & Addictions viii. 189 Attendance at one of the many annual gay AA ‘roundups’..offers feelings of reunion.

1884 Atlantic Monthly June 792/1 If your wife will take the trouble to make a little better round-up of her recollection, she will remember that [etc.].

1887 Ann. Rep. Colorado State Hort. Soc. 250 (heading) Secretary's round-up... Under this head will be found such articles as I may have gleaned in my general observations, etc.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Dec. 8/2 The ‘round-ups’ of Congressional opinion on the war debts issue.

1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 159/1 The BBC's Middle East round-up on Saturday night was a notable project.

1974 Radio Times 21 Feb. 46/2 Commentary from Trinidad on the final day's play in the Second Test, together with a round-up of the day's sport.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Nov. a18/2 On the eve of the holiday season, a roundup of tables, from traditional 12-seaters to studio apartment multitaskers.

1884 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 10 Oct. Garvey was a cowboy, and..shot and killed George Wolf, a round-up boss.

1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 313 The round-up boss would let no one drive through the herd.

2006 C. A. Roberts & S. A. Roberts New Mexico (rev. ed.) viii. 148 Jack Robinson..was roundup boss for the huge Bar T Cross ranch and one of the most respected riders around.

1878 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 17 July He was employed as cook for a lot of cattle men, and while with a round-up camp at Lost Springs, cut his throat.

1923 Outward Bound Mar. 410/2 Seventeen miles across the Mesa la Sal, in Utah, brought me to a round-up camp.

2002 K. H. Tanner & J. D. Tanner Last of Old-time Outlaws vi. 70 At the roundup camp, Harry Aguayo and Dan Welch noticed the two riders approaching, their clothes ragged and torn.

1885 E. V. Smalley in J. Nimmo Rep. Range & Ranch Cattle Business 79 Each association appoints a round-up captain, who gives notice of the place and time of assembly and superintends the work.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. vi. 112 The round-up Captain appointed two men to hold the cow-and-calf cut, and two more to hold the steer cut.

1997 R. C. Barth Pioneers Colorado Parks xli. 234 Silas Pollock was roundup captain that year. The well-respected cowman had worked his way up to become foreman of the VVN outfit.

1883 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 2 June 5/1 A round-up outfit..camped on the south side of the river.

1958 I. Blasingame Dakota Cowboy viii. 114 His roundup outfit had a good cook.

2008 J. Todd Sun Going Down xix. 197 They spent the rest of the day trying to pick up the trail,..encountering other roundup outfits here and there but no herd and no Mexican horse thieves.

1876 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 17 June A body of Indians had attacked the round-up party on Lyman Cole's ranch.

1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 67/3 Round-up parties go out in search of the herds, which are usually found in the early morning around water holes.

1999 M. Wallis Real Wild West xiv. 123 A farewell supper at ‘The Hundred and One’ had become a tradition for the Millers and their roundup party.

1882 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 27 Feb. 4/4 A cow-boy..killed Geo. Short, cook of a ‘round up’ wagon.

1932 W. James Big-enough v. 65 He told the boy to saddle up, that he was going to take him along to where the round-up wagon was camped fifteen miles or so away.

2008 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 11 July a3 Four thoroughbred horses are attached to traditional round-up wagons with wooden boxes and square corners.

1940 Y. Winters Poems 26 I remembered..The sprawling streets,..The Round-up pennants.

1914 City of Denver 10 Jan. 6/3 Colorado livestock cannot be beat anywhere on earth. This end of the ‘Round-Up’ week program will take care of itself.

2006 K. Samson Frommer's Oregon 326 The city is packed to overflowing during Round-Up week, so if you plan to attend, reserve early.

1891 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 26 Nov. 6/5 He closed his series with a four-column ‘general round-up’ article.]

1941 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 2 May 4/6 Labor Unity..carried a number of class struggle roundup articles by outstanding figures in the party scheme.

2003 S. Van Yoder Get slightly Famous vi. 106 The roundup article gathers information around a question ora common theme, and presents it in an organized manner.

1968 E. Barnouw Golden Web 306 World news roundup programs begin.

1982 Xinhua Gen. Overseas News Service (Nexis) 1 June The station will, through the special channel, provide four round-up programs a week.

2009 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 14 Oct. 19 My hour of fame over, I watched the first weekly roundup programme on Sky Art.

1920 Proc. 25th Ann. Meeting (Assoc. Colleges & Secondary Schools Southern States) 65 What I learned by that daily study of the Life of Christ with a round-up review in a group discussion each Sunday morning has probably meant more to me than any other Bible study that I ever did.

2004 A. Fels Necessary Dreams (2005) ii. 115 A roundup review of wedding books noted: ‘The weird thing about wedding books is that they rarely mention the groom.’