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Roundup   /rˈaʊndˌəp/   Listen
Roundup

noun
1.
The activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold.
2.
A summary list; as in e.g..
3.
The systematic gathering up of suspects by the police.





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"Roundup" Quotes from Famous Books



... later the same corner of New Mexico was worked over by the roundup, and again the mustang bunch was seen. The dark colt was now a black yearling, with thin, clean legs and glossy flanks; and more than one of the boys saw with his own eyes this oddity—the mustang was a born pacer. Jo was along, and the idea now struck him that that colt was worth ...
— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton


Words linked to "Roundup" :   sum-up, police work, ranching, summary, round up, police investigation


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