round in

English

Verb

round in (third-person singular simple present rounds in, present participle rounding in, simple past and past participle rounded in)

1. (nautical) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.
   • 1891, William Gordon Stables, Our Home in the Silver West:

     Moncrieff rounded in the slack of the rope and landed the captain most beautifully.

2. (US, dated) To round up (cattle) by riding around them.

References

• “round”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.