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A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.

• Round-backed
  Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
• Roundtop
  A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Short-winded
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
• Round-up
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• Roundelay
  See Rondeau, and Rondel.
• Roundure
  Roundness; a round or circle.
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Roundworm
  A nematoid worm.
• Shortener
  One who, or that which, shortens.
• ROUNDARM
  Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. R. A. Proctor.
• Leverage
  The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
• Roundfish
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.

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