单词 | rounce |
释义 | rouncen.1 Printing. 1. A handle used to operate a winch connected to the spit of a hand printing press, by which the carriage is moved in and out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage > mechanism for moving carriage round1648 rounce1683 society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage > mechanism for moving carriage > handle rounce1683 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 68 On the straight Shank of this Winch is fitted the Rounce. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 323 Having Pull'd the First Pull, and having the Rounce still in his Left Hand, He turns the Rounce about again. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing To the outside of the Spit is fix'd a Handle, or Rounce, by which the Press-man turns the Plank in or out at pleasure. 1795 Trans. Soc. Arts 13 248 By a gentle motion of the rounce.., fixed on the end of the spit. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 294 The carriage is moved by the rounce or handle K, with a spit and leather girts very similar to the wooden press. 1870 D. R. Locke Demagogue vi. 85 The pressman..turned down the tympan..and by turning the rounce, ran the bed containing the type. 1907 New Amer. Suppl. Encycl. Britannica XXVIII. 491/1 He laid the sheet on the tympan and applied his hand to the rounce, by the turning of which the form was inked. 2009 C. Blevins Tory Widow v. 82 He put the press in motion—shutting the tympan and giving the rounce a turn to move the carriage under the platen. 2. The winch which is operated by the rounce (see sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage > mechanism for moving carriage > part of rounce1683 spit1728 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 277 In Winding the Girts off or on the Barrel of the Rounce. 1771 P. Luckombe Hist. & Art of Printing 328 The Press-man, without nailing or un-nailing, Sets the Rounce to what position he will, only by lifting up the iron Clicker that stops the wheel. 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 343 The girths should be nailed on the barrel of the rounce. 1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. xxi. 158 The rounce should now be fixed and followed by the table, to which the girths of the rounce must be attached. 1918 D. Baker Platen Printing Presses 3 In 1620 William Jansen Blaeu..added the strap and rounce for running the bed in and out. 1979 R. Darnton Business of Enlightenment v. 234 He ran the coffin under the platen..in the vertical part of the press by means of a windlass or rounce. Compounds General attributive, as rounce barrel, rounce handle, rounce spindle, etc. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 277 The Carriage-board, Frame of the Coffin, and the Rounce-barrel. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 283 Both ends of the Rounce-Spindle. 1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia ii. iii. 579 Both ends of the rounce-spindle, the nut and spindle, and the toe of the spindle, are all to be well oiled. 1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 411 With a rounce handle on the end of this spindle. 1931 L. C. Wroth Colonial Printer iv. 55 The rounce mechanism..was simply a horizontal windlass extending from side to side of the press. 1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen v. 131/1 The puller..ran the carriage in by turning a crank called the rounce handle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). rouncen.2 Chiefly U.S. A card game resembling whist, the object of which is to reduce an initial score (of fifteen) to zero by winning tricks. Also: a domino game with similar scoring. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > dominoes > [noun] > forms of game rounce1845 tiddlywink1857 matador1865 all fives1868 muggins1868 Malakoff1870 all fours1872 sniff1917 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > rounce rounce1845 1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 203/1 Games of gucca, rounce, and loo, were proposed and voted by acclamation. 1855 in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1929) 8 352 Had a great rounce game, a little noise but no fun. 1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle 397 Rounce. This is a pleasant game [of dominoes], and from two to four may participate in it. 1905 National Mag. Jan. 411/2 I sp'ose you boys'll be in fer a game o' rounce now. 2005 L. Bolton Everything Games Bk. (ed. 2) vi. 124 Rounce may be played by up to nine people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rouncev.1 Now rare. 1. intransitive. With adverb or prepositional phrase. To behave in an agitated, boisterous, or noisy manner. Cf. rouncing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > behave violently or use force [verb (intransitive)] > act roughly or boisterously rounce?a1500 rantipole1650 rowdy1823 roughhouse1900 rowdy-dow1966 ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 8 (MED) Make a pipe þat haþ a wyd hende and hold hit ouer þe smoke þat hit may rounse þorwe þe pipe into þy teyth. a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) 312 O many such shal rounce at Gods mercy-gate, that shall never come in. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 228 He rounced in his chair. He sat rouncing about. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xv. 196 Your mother is kind of rouncing round, all right. 1931 B. Davis Let. Feb. in A. Lawson Irvin S. Cobb (1984) xxiii. 219 We rounced up at the Norris teas. 2. transitive. To shake (something).More recent evidence for this sense is probably implied by quot. 1928 for rouncing n. at Derivatives. ΚΠ 1825 S. Adams & S. Adams Compl. Servant 401 As horses should always be fed with fresh clean corn, it would be well to rounce them in a hair bag. 1845 A. J. Cooley Cycl. Pract. Receipts (ed. 2) 742/2 It is common practice among the grocers of England to impart what they call a ‘bloom’ to their green teas by ‘rouncing’ them up with a little calcined magnesia. 1860 Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 11 208 The paper or other substances of which the cartridge may be made, may be..rounced with the powder after the cartridge is made. Derivatives ˈrouncing n. ΚΠ 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 450/1 The process of rouncing (that is, shaking in a bag with powdered rhubarb). 1874 P. Russell Leaves from Journalist's Note-bk. 78 The beautiful lustre which we see in these blue-cakes is imparted by a process called ‘rouncing’. 1928 Times 2 Oct. p. xii/7 Such operations include weighing, taring, grading, sorting to quality and condition, blending, bulking, vatting, rouncing, coopering, placing goods on show, and scores of other operations as well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rouncev.2 Cards (chiefly U.S.). rare. transitive (in passive). To incur penalty points in a game of rounce by failing to take a trick after entering a play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [verb (transitive)] > actions in specific games > in rounce rounce1859 1859 W. Kelly Life in Victoria II. i. 17 When a player gets ‘rounced’..towards the close of the game, it is a signal for boisterous merriment. 1868 W. B. Dick Mod. Pocket Hoyle 197 Each trick taken in play counts one point, and if a player fail to take a trick after entering to play his hand, he is Rounced, that is, sent up five points, which adds a X to his score. 2005 L. Bolton Everything Games Bk. (ed. 2) vi. 126 If you fail to take a trick after entering to play your hand, you are rounced, and 5 points are added to your score at once. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11683n.21845v.1?a1500v.21859 |
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