Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A game of cards, played with a full pack by not more than nine persons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun printing The whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

Etymologies

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Compare French ronce bramble, brier, thorn, ranche a round, step, rack, or English round.

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