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Roundhead

noun

Etymology

From round + head, from their short-cropped hairstyle.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as roundhead — “round + head”

Definitions

  1. A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War (in the 17th century).

  2. Having a dome-shaped head.

    • The roundhead screw and its fraternal twins, the button head and pan head screws, have a head that is flat on the bottom and hemispherical on top.
    • You can use flat-head screws and plug the holes, or you can use roundhead blue screws and let the heads project.

  3. A roundhead screw, one with a domed head.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Roundhead (“parliament supporter in the English Civil…

      Alternative letter-case form of Roundhead (“parliament supporter in the English Civil War”)

      • You roundhead whore, sock it up, or me will kill you, begar.
      • Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead ; and so he escaped.

    2. A male whose penis is circumcised.

      • The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.

    3. A circular platform at the end of a pier or breakwater.

      • The top of the caisson will be at the same level as the bag-work foundation of the pier, and a roundhead, composed of 45-ton granite faced concrete blocks, will be built on it.

    4. Any of various agarics of the genus Stropharia.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA