pounced

• IPA^(key): /paʊnst/
• Rhymes: -aʊnst

pounced

1. simple past and past participle of pounce

pounced (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Furnished with claws or talons.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire

2. (obsolete) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     Gilt bowls pounced or pierced.

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

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