Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rounce

Rounce (rouns) , noun

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

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