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Definition of Roundup
1. Noun. The activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold.
2. Noun. A summary list; as in e.g.. "A news roundup"
3. Noun. The systematic gathering up of suspects by the police. "A mass roundup of suspects"
Definition of Roundup
1. n. The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
2. n. A rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
Definition of Roundup
1. Noun. an activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped ¹
2. Noun. the similar police activity of gathering together suspects to a crime ¹
3. Noun. the summary to a news bulletin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roundup
1. the driving together of cattle scattered over a range [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundup
Literary usage of Roundup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cruisings in the Cascades: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur by George O. Shields (1889)
"There is so much to interest and excite the denizen of the States who first
attends a roundup on the great plains that I am tempted to speak of some of the ..."
2. Report by New Hampshire Bureau of Labor, Montana (1900)
"... THE roundup. tr • which responded, showing unmistakable tuberculosis and were
destroyed. Where practicable all such quarantined cattle were immediately ..."
3. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1916)
"Defendant, roundup Coal Mining Company, owning the electric plant, filed a general
... At a later date, citizens of roundup, Montana, filed their complaint ..."
4. Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford (1910)
"CHAPTER III THE roundup THE Texan sky seemed a huge mirror upon which were
reflected the white fleecy clouds sailing northward; the warm spring air was full ..."
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