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Webster 1913 Edition


Roundhead

Round′headˊ

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Noun.
(Eng. Hist.)
A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Roundhead

ROUND'HEAD

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Noun.
[round and head.] A name formerly given to a puritan, from the practice which prevailed among the puritans of cropping the hair round.