单词 | to go the rounds |
释义 | > as lemmasto go (also †make, pace, walk, etc.) the rounds (also round) a. A circuit of a garrison or camp, the ramparts of a fortress, etc., made by a patrol, esp. during the night, to ensure that the sentinels are vigilant; (also) a circuit of the streets of a town made by a watch to preserve good order. Chiefly in to go (also †make, pace, walk, etc.) the rounds (also round). Also figurative and in extended use. Now chiefly in plural and historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > circuit of watch or sentry round1580 watch round1828 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > round > in the course of duty round?1533 to go (also make, pace, walk, etc.) the rounds (also round)1580 walk1594–1600 1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 136 There must thou watch at thy Warde, and stand thy sentinell: bee one in the still watch, or walke thy Round. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres vi. 244 The first [soldier] in the time of winter maketh his Rounds & counter Roundes for sixe houres. 1646 H. Peake Medit. upon Seige 92 He that hath the charge of the Guard in the night time is to walke the round at times. 1677 S. Pepys Portugal Hist. 137 The Watch which made the Round in the City, were not exempt from the Assaults of these People. 1755 G. Washington Orders 23 Oct. in B. Franklin Papers (1983) II. 135 The Captain of the Day is to go the Rounds every night, and visit the Guard and Centries. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 272 He accompanied the Major of the regiment in going what are styled, the Rounds, where he might observe the forms of visiting the guards. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. x. 141 As when a guard Of some proud castle, holding ward, Pace forth their nightly round. 1829 G. de Stefani Let. in G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. xxx. 206 He sometimes goes the rounds in his night watch, and catches the midshipmen asleep. 1855 R. Browning Master Hugues iv You may challenge them, not a response Get the church-saints on their rounds! 1868 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army §859 Commanders of Guards are to go their rounds twice by day and twice by night. 1916 Confederate Veteran Oct. 452/1 This guard went the rounds at the expiration of every two hours during the night. 1987 P. Batty & P. Parish Divided Union i. 20 An important feature of Southern life was the slave patrol, usually a mounted detachment of three or four white men who went the rounds each night to check on slave movements. to go the rounds 27. In plural. With the. The procedure established under the Poor Law by which unemployed agricultural labourers were given temporary work by a number of farmers in turn. Chiefly in on the rounds, (also) to go the rounds. Cf. roundsman n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment plough-tail?1523 threaving1768 rounds1795 tut1800 yoking1812 bush-work1830 stoop labour1943 1795 F. M. Eden State of Poor II. 29 Most labourers are, (as it is termed,) on the Rounds; that is, they go to work from one house to another round the parish. 1813 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford. 608 (E.D.D.) The increase of population has caused a deficiency of employment, which is so remarkable in some seasons, that a great proportion of the labourers ‘go the rounds’. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 183 Rounds-Men, labouring poor, who are taken into employment by the farmers in rotation; when they are said to be ‘on the rounds’. 1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 167 Efforts were made to keep the men off the rates by the system of going the ‘Rounds’, that is to say, a man out of work was kept in turn by the farmers and passed on from one to another. 1934 E. H. Hampson Treatm. Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1595–1834 163 The Industrial School and the workhouse, and from 1795 onwards the gravel pit and the ‘rounds’, took the place of apprenticeship for many children. 2004 K. Morgan Birth Industr. Brit. vi. 63 In some parishes the ‘roundsman’ system was used, whereby unemployed workers were sent on the rounds in search of work. to go the round (also rounds) P5. to go the round (also rounds): (of news, gossip, a joke, etc.) to be passed on from person to person (or from publication to publication, etc.). Later also to make (also do) the rounds. Also with of.In singular use, now somewhat archaic. In plural use, originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (intransitive)] > spread or be current springOE spreadc1300 to go abouta1325 quicka1400 risea1400 runa1400 walkc1400 stir1423 voice1429 fly1480 to go abroad1513 to come abroad1525 wandera1547 divulge1604 to get abroad1615 to take aira1616 to make (also do) the rounds1669 to get about1740 reach1970 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 124 The rest..communicate it one to another, till it hath gone the round. 1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry xii. xxiii. 649 Thus we see how many write, and how few think: how Error goes the Round of different Nations. 1811 National Intelligencer (Washington) 9 May A case of similar impressment at the eastward had been satisfactorily contradicted, after going the rounds of all the papers, in most of which, however, the contradiction will never, I presume, appear. 1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne v. 79 No light sayings of his upon the matter were going the round of his neighbourhood. 1837 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 22 Mar. 3/2 There is a story going the rounds in relation to the president-elect. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 66 The following anecdote, that is now going the round of the papers. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 18 This celebrated epistle..created quite a sensation..as it went the round after tea. 1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 55 Everything of the kind has to go the rounds, you know. 1927 Vanity Fair Nov. 67/2 Conway's ‘That's the pay off!’ is swiftly making the rounds. 1931 A. Christie Sittaford Myst. xvi. 123 In this little community of ours the smallest detail is known, and your arrival here yesterday has naturally gone the round. 1959 Listener 28 May 941/2 All those romantic stories..which have been going the rounds of the rive gauche ever since. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 39/2 The rumor that the FBI started about her being a Soviet spy is still making the rounds at parties she no longer attends. 1989 Investors Chron. 27 Jan. 89/1 All sorts of wild rumours are doing the rounds. 2001 C. Petit Hard Shoulder (2002) 152 It was already going the rounds that Brendan had been hanging out in hardline bars. 2006 Independent 24 Nov. 14/1 According to recent rumours doing the rounds in medialand, the BBC are considering bringing back Nationwide to primetime television. < as lemmas |
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