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Rounding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Round or roundish; nearly round.

Rounding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Among seamen, old ropes wound about the part of the cable which lies in the hawse, or athwart the stem, to prevent its chafing.

2. Rounding in, a pulling upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal. rounding up is a pulling in like manner, when a tackle hangs in a perpendicular direction.

Rounding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Making round or circular.

2. Making full, flowing and smooth.

Rounding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

Rounding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.

2. Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.

Rounding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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