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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.
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English
English : patronymic from Round.
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v. i.
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
v.
t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
pl.
of Roundsman
n.
One of the rounds of a ladder.
n.
One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
v. i.
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps.
n.
A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
n.
Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
v. i.
The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
n.
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
n.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
n.
A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
v. i.
A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
a.
Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.