rounce

English

Etymology 1

Compare French ronce (“bramble, brier, thorn”), ranche (“a round, step, rack”), or English round.

Noun

rounce (plural rounces)

1. (printing) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again.
2. (printing) The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

Verb

rounce (third-person singular simple present rounces, present participle rouncing, simple past and past participle rounced)

1. (historical) To restore damaged coffee by stirring it in a tub with boiling water and then drying it.

Etymology 2

Noun

rounce (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of rams (“card game”)

See also

• rounce robble hobble

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rounce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• conure, ouncer