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单词 rounce
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Definition of rounce in English:

rounce

noun raʊns
Printing
  • 1A handle used to operate a winch connected to the spit of a hand printing press, by which the carriage is moved in and out.

  • 2The winch which is operated by the rounce.

noun raʊns
US
  • A card game resembling whist, the object of which is to reduce an initial score (of fifteen) to zero by winning tricks.

verb raʊns
US Cards rare
  • with object (In pass.). To incur penalty points in a game of rounce by failing to take a trick after entering a play.

Origin

Late 17th century; earliest use found in Joseph Moxon (1627–1691), printer and globe maker. From Dutch † rondse handle used to operate a winch connected to the spit of a hand-printing press; also ronds, rons), probably from rond + a suffix of uncertain origin
mid 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Probably from French rams, denoting a card game for three to five players in which the object is to take five tricks as quickly as possible or its apparent etymon German Ramsch, (chiefly regional
: Switzerland) † Rams, (regional: Carinthia) † Rans Ramsch, although this is apparently first attested later in the relevant sense (1837 or earlier in a Swiss (Appenzell) source denoting a card game with unspecified rules, 1859 or earlier (implied in the verb † ransen) denoting a card game played in the Lesach valley in Carinthia, a southern province of Austria, in which the object is to win five tricks as quickly as possible); for the later (and now main) sense of the German word, denoting a trick-avoiding game, as well as for the ulterior etymology see Ramsch
mid 19th century. From rounce.

Definition of rounce in US English:

rounce

nounraʊns
Printing
  • 1A handle used to operate a winch connected to the spit of a hand printing press, by which the carriage is moved in and out.

  • 2The winch which is operated by the rounce.

nounraʊns
US
  • A card game resembling whist, the object of which is to reduce an initial score (of fifteen) to zero by winning tricks.

verbraʊns
US Cards rare
  • with object (In pass.). To incur penalty points in a game of rounce by failing to take a trick after entering a play.

Origin

Late 17th century; earliest use found in Joseph Moxon (1627–1691), printer and globe maker. From Dutch † rondse handle used to operate a winch connected to the spit of a hand-printing press; also ronds, rons), probably from rond + a suffix of uncertain origin<br>mid 19th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Probably from French rams, denoting a card game for three to five players in which the object is to take five tricks as quickly as possible or its apparent etymon German Ramsch, (chiefly regional: Switzerland) † Rams, (regional: Carinthia) † Rans Ramsch, although this is apparently first attested later in the relevant sense (1837 or earlier in a Swiss (Appenzell) source denoting a card game with unspecified rules, 1859 or earlier (implied in the verb † ransen) denoting a card game played in the Lesach valley in Carinthia, a southern province of Austria, in which the object is to win five tricks as quickly as possible); for the later (and now main) sense of the German word, denoting a trick-avoiding game, as well as for the ulterior etymology see Ramsch<br>mid 19th century. From rounce.

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