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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In printing, a wheel-pulley in a hand-press, which winds and unwinds girths that draw the type-form on the bed to and from impression under the platen. See cut under printing-press.
  2. n. A game of cards, played with a full pack by not more than nine persons. Each player starts with fifteen points, and for every trick he takes subtracts one from the score; the player who first reaches zero wins.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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. n. printing The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Print.) 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; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

Etymologies

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

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