- Approximately - Carousel - Fairground attraction makes traffic go in circles - Traffic circle in funfair - Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout
speech. - Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. - A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden
horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
- Revolving cylinder used as a hoist - A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a
shift. - To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by
indirect means. - A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal
cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or
similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight.
In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for
raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is
worked by hand or steam. - An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending
the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. - To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a
windlass.
- The use of more words than are necessary to express the
idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. - To express by periphrase or circumlocution. - To use circumlocution.
- round about way of speaking - roundabout way of speaking - The use of many words to express an idea that might
be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.