Noah Webster
Rounding
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.