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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
bring (livestock) together in a roundup (def. 1).
See: roundup (def. 1)
Quotations
1882
It is thought when or persons commissioned by the Crown to inquire the herds are rounded up in the spring a good many will into some matter on behalf of the federal or a be missing of which no account has been received.
1966
. . . the men went back over the trail to try to round up the strays.
2
bring people together in a roundup (def. 2).
See: roundup (def. 2)
Quotations
1955
The culprits have been rounded up and tried at High Prairie
3
fetch; collect; bring together.
See: roundup (def. 2)
Quotations
1936
. . . Slim Downey was to fly back to Iviuk Inlet as soon as he could after the freeze-up, leaving the white woman and her friend to round up Owen Winslow. . . .