Roughs, coarse, or vulgar men. By many thought to be RUFF, corruption of RUFFIAN.
Rouleau, a packet of sovereigns.—Gaming.
Round, to tell tales, to [SPLIT], which see; “to ROUND on a man,” to swear to him as being the person, &c. Synonymous with [BUFF], which see. Also to turn round upon and abuse or rate. Shakspeare has ROUNDING, whispering.
Round, “ROUND dealing,” honest trading; “ROUND sum,” a large sum. Synonymous also, in a slang sense, with [SQUARE], which see.
Round (in the language of the street), the beat or usual walk of a costermonger to sell his stock. A term used by street folk generally.
“Watchmen, sometimes they made their sallies,
And walk’d their ROUNDS through streets and allies.”
The word “beat” has, so far as our modern guardians are concerned, deposed “round.”
Round robin, a petition, or paper of remonstrance, with the signatures written in a circle,—to prevent the first signer, or ringleader, from being discovered.
Round un, an unblushingly given and well-proportioned lie. Sometimes known as a “whacker.”
Roundabout, a large swing with four compartments, each the size, and very much the shape, of the body of a cart, capable of seating six or eight boys and girls, erected in a high frame, and turned round by men at a windlass. Fairs and merry-makings generally abound with these swings. The frames take to pieces, and are carried in vans from fair to fair by miserable horses.