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单词 to round in
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to round in
to round in
transitive.
1. In passive. To be hemmed or shut in; to be enclosed.
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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.
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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.
3. Scottish. To bring (a period of time) to completion; = to round off 3a at Phrasal verbs. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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