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Definition of Round up
1. Verb. Seek out and bring together. "They want to round up the prisoners "; "Round up some loyal followers"
Definition of Round up
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive arithmetic) To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Up
Literary usage of Round up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"The result of the union of these ambitions was the Pendleton Round-up, which
proved so successful the year of its inception that a long start was made ..."
2. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1903)
"CHAPTER IV ON THE CATTLE RANGES; THE PRONGHORN ANTELOPE EARLY one June, just
after the close of the regular spring round-up, a couple of wagons, ..."
3. Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail by Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
"IV THE ROUND-UP ... Almost every stock-growers' association forbids branding any
calves before the spring round-up. If great bands of cattle wander off the ..."
4. Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail by Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
"IV THE ROUND-UP ... Almost every stock-growers' association forbids branding any
calves before the spring round-up. If great bands of cattle wander off the ..."
5. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"They say there will be a great round-up, And cowboys, like dogies, will stand,
To be marked by the Riders of Judgment Who are posted and know every brand. ..."
6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"S. 4, '09. Buffalo mountain tunnel; story AK Akers. 11. McClure. 33: 558-63. S.
'09. Buffaloes. Last great round-up of buffaloes. N. Mac- Tavish. II. ..."
7. Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1916)
"They say there will be a great round-up, And cowboys, like dogies, will stand,
To be marked by the Riders of Judgment Who are posted and know every brand. ..."
8. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"There was much hard work and some risk on a round-up, but also much fun.
The meeting- place was appointed weeks beforehand, and all the ranchmen of the ..."
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