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roundabout
1. Brit a revolving circular platform provided with wooden animals, seats, etc., on which people ride for amusement; merry-go-round
2. a road junction in which traffic streams circulate around a central island
3. an informal name for boring mill


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There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
Five miles here by a roundabout way is only half my daily allowance of walking exercise; five miles back by a roundabout way remain to be now accomplished.
"It seems to me," he said, "that we have taken the roundabout way of getting to our end in view, when the straight road lay before us.
 
 
 
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