runround

1. (US, pathology, informal, dated) A felon or whitlow.Examples: "This time it was my "runround;" and before she took off her bonnet, she had brought me a cup of ashes and water, and put my finger in soak."; "The ulcerative form resembles ingrowing nail, but in the syyphilitic disease the matrix is usually involved first, and not secondarily, as in ordinary ingrowing nail, or in common runround."; "Runround is always the result of an injury which may be very trivial."USdatedinformal

2. (rail transport) A route that loops around local rail yards for the transfer of goods (and sometimes used to turn cars around).Examples: "So far I had shared driving on station-pilots, runround trips, empty coaches and suburban passenger jobs."; "Two sidings – one a runround loop – were laid alongside the down platform at Severn Tunnel Junction station."; "Laid as a single line, the WHR was provided with a runround loop at Dinas on the site of the former LNWR line, and two platforms were constructed."

3. (mining) A track arrangement (usually a loop) that allows mine cars to be redirected without reversing.Examples: "As the pithead (Fig. 15) had not been designed for large wide gauge cars it was necessary to replace the usual runround with a traverser."; "We are moving away from the normal type of runround."; "A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit."

4. (nautical) A circular area or platform on a ship.Examples: "From the runround to the ground there are 11 gerts. From the runround to the crow's nest there are 6 gerts."; "[…] runround of tankers, supertankers and big slups of all types, this new dock is 80 feet long by 150 feet wide , and provision has been made for lengthening a to 1,900 feet."; "This first ship had a small geophysical-type drilling rig mounted over the side of the ship with a steel grid runround for the roughnecks, who stood in knee-deep water while making connections or pulling the drill string."