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round on

verb
  1. To turn and attack someone or something. (figuratively, transitive) · As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
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Is it a coincidence that it is found at the very point where the train pitches and sways as it comes round on the points?
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 16 · B2
You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis—”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 43 · B2

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