| 单词 | to round in | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto round into round in  transitive.  1.  In passive. To be hemmed or shut in; to be enclosed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine			[verb (transitive)]		 pena1200 bebar?c1225 loukc1275 beshuta1300 parc1300 to shut in1398 to close inc1400 parrockc1400 pinc1400 steekc1400 lock?a1425 includec1425 key?a1439 spare?c1450 enferme1481 terminea1500 bebay1511 imprisona1533 besetc1534 hema1552 ram1567 warda1586 closet1589 pound1589 seclude1598 confine1600 i-pend1600 uptie1600 pinfold1605 boundify1606 incoop1608 to round in1609 ring1613 to buckle ina1616 embounda1616 swathe1624 hain1636 coopa1660 to sheathe up1661 stivea1722 cloister1723 span1844 1609    W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida  i. iii. 196  				To weaken our discredit, our exposure How ranke so euer rounded in with  danger.       View more context for this quotation a1637    B. Jonson Sad Shepherd 150 in  Wks. 		(1640)	 III  				With Caterpillers kells And knottie Cobwebs, rounded in with  spells.       View more context for this quotation 1841    R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. ii. 58  				All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being. 1891    Eclectic Mag. of Foreign Lit. Oct. 439/2  				All Kashmir is rounded in by petty tribal chiefships which occupy the higher valleys. 1906    H. Lowerison From Paleolith to Motor Car 51  				All is rounded in with a great earthwork. 1936    Pop. Sci. Monthly July 70/3  				The dial face must be rounded in with wax. 2006    Gold Coast Bull. 		(Austral.)	 		(Nexis)	 5 Sept. (Sport section) 47  				The Bulldogs looked well off the pace in their defensive work and were easily rounded in by the Bombers.  2.  Nautical. To haul in (a rope or tackle), esp. in a horizontal direction. Cf. to round up 2a at  Phrasal verbs. In later use also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail			[verb (transitive)]		 > trim sails > sheet or brace in to round aftc1625 to round inc1625 to sheet home1797 c1625    H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis 		(Add. MS 21571)	 f. 115v  				They let rise the maine-tack..and hale aft the fore-sheate to ye Cat-head and the maine-sheate to the Cubbridge-head: this they call Rounding-aft, or Rounding in the Saile. 1769    W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Rounding-in  				Round-in the weather-braces! 1825    H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 53  				While some to ease the Tacks and Sheets are found, The Weather Braces in again they Round. 1846    A. Young Naut. Dict.  				Round in, to haul in on a rope; especially on a weather brace. To round in a Tackle, means to haul in the slack of it in a horizontal direction; the term round up is applied in a similar manner when the tackle is in a vertical or sloping direction. 1904    W. C. Russell Wrong Side Out xvi. 264  				In a moment all was commotion and the clamorous throats of merchantmen, dragging upon down-hauls and rounding-in upon braces. 1984    J. Harland Seamanship in Age of Sail ix. 145/2  				He [sc. Cradock] thought that beginners tended to round in too much. 2003    C. Wing  & J. Austin Get your Captain's License 		(ed. 3)	 165  				To separate the blocks is to overhaul. To bring the blocks closer together is to round in. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work)			[verb (transitive)]		 > bring to an end or conclusion > appropriately or perfectly rounda1616 bring1680 to round off1748 to round in1822 1822    S. A. Mackey Mythological Astron. 14  				The three Syrens, which rounded in the year, proclaimed the sports during the three months of Water. 1889    Stevenson Edinburgh viii. 142  				A martial swan-song, fitly rounding in the labours of the day. 1898    N. Munro John Splendid x. 98  				We might have been happy..rounding in the day with longer journeys in the moonlight.  4.  To gather together (a scattered group of animals or people); = to round up 4a at  Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > round up muster1813 to round up1849 rodeo1854 round1865 to round in1874 1874    W. Stamer Gentleman Emigrant II. 247  				The others [sc. cattle] having been already rounded in, the second drive has been accomplished. 1900    Daily News 15 May 3/3  				Perhaps it would be difficult to find men better fitted to ‘round in’ Republican stragglers. 1984    I. Doig Eng. Creek 236  				Each morning the riders fanned out in half circles of about a dozen miles' ride and rounded in the cattle for sorting. 2007    H. A. Rosburg Call of Trumpet ix. 130  				Cecile gazed into the distance, at the herds of the neighboring camps also being rounded in. < as lemmas | 
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