Meaning of Roundhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War (in the 17th century).
   historical, informal
2. A roundhead screw, one with a domed head.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Roundhead (“parliament supporter in the English Civil War”)
   alt-of, historical
4. A male whose penis is circumcised.
   slang
5. A circular platform at the end of a pier or breakwater.
6. Any of various agarics of the genus Stropharia.

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Examples

“You roundhead whore, sock it up, or me will kill you, begar.”

“Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead ; and so he escaped.”

“The parliament, which either could not or would not be prorogued till the end of October, busied itself exceedingly regarding the queen's residence with her children, and testified the utmost jealousy of her confessor, father Phillipss, who underwent several examinations; and may portentous hints were dropped by the roundhead orators in the house of commons respecting the queen's establishment of Capuchins at Somerset-house.”

“He added that they 'fell upon all that have short hair' and cried out, 'A roundhead! A roundhead!'”

“That’s a good reminder of how they won the referendum: these cavalier romancers trounced the roundhead number-cruncher remainers. Surely the country wouldn’t be fooled by the same trick twice.”

“The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.”

“Since penile preference is so tied up with personal aesthetics and body image, it seems both logical and fair to leave the choice of cavalier or roundhead to the owner of the organ, thus avoiding the sort of life-long pain expressed in a comment like this:[…]”

“I knew about the English Civil War, Cavaliers (wrong but romantic) versus Roundheads (right but repulsive), but I didn't think that was what he was talking about. I shook my head. “It means our willies aren't circumcised,” he explained. “Are you a cavalier or a roundhead?””

“The top of the caisson will be at the same level as the bag-work foundation of the pier, and a roundhead, composed of 45-ton granite faced concrete blocks, will be built on it.”

“The smallness of the damage done at Purfleet is remarkable, when it is remembered that the impact of a large steamship is sufficient to cut deeply into solid masonry piers, and that only in 1907 the effect of a collision against the souther breakwater of the Admiralty Harbour, Dover, was to sever the roundhead entirely from the body of the pier, in addition to causing other serious injuries.”

“The breakwater, and in particular the roundhead, has been the responsibility of Jersey Harbours for many years but day to day maintenance and isolated repairs were becoming more frequent, punctuated by emergency repair works to the face of the roundhead at the extreme end of the breakwater.”

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