ROUND'ING, participle present tense 1. Making round or circular. 2. Making full, flowing and smooth. ROUND'ING, adjective Round or roundish; nearly round. ROUND'ING, noun Among seamen, old ropes wound about the part of the cable which lies in the hawse, or athwart the stem, to prevent its chafing. 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.
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