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Definition of Round top

1. Noun. A canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance. "They had the big top up in less than an hour"

Definition of Round top

1. Noun. (alternative form of round-top) ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Top

Literary usage of Round top

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Battle of Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Narrative by Jesse Bowman Young (1913)
"To Warren, who was present and heard the conversation and understood the danger, Meade turned and ordered him to look after Little round top; just before ..."

2. Gettysburg, the Pivotal Battle of the Civil War by Robert K. Beecham (1911)
"The eastern and northern faces of Little round top, though steep and rocky, are not nearly so high and difficult of ascent as the western face from Death ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1864)
"On to the round top !" cried Sykes to his men ; 11 On to the round top ! ... On toward the round top, revolve the strong wheels, Spurned is the ground by ..."

4. America, Picturesque and Descriptive by Joel Cook (1900)
"... intervening rocky gorge called the Devil's Den, there arc two peaks, formed of tree-covered crags, known as the Little round top and the Big round top. ..."

5. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... Bocks—Desperate Charges against an Earnest Adversary—Hood wounded— General Law succeeds him in command of the Division—" Little round top" an Important ..."

6. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"North of round top, and quite near it, is a similar peak about half as high, ... About five hundred yards west of Little round top another rugged peak, ..."

7. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"Pan dc Azucar.—Ascent of the Mountain.—The View.—Speculations on the Future of this Country.—round top.—Fort Bourbon.—Claims of Bolivia and Paraguay. ..."

8. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"Point Rock.—Sierra Siete Punta.—Pan de Azúcar.—Ascent of the Mountain.—The View.—Speculations on the Future of this Country.—round top.—Fort Bourbon. ..."

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