Definitions for pounces

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Spelling: [pouns]

IPA: /paʊns/

Pounces is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in pounces (cenopsu).

Definitions for pounces

noun

1. the claw or talon of a bird of prey.
2. a sudden swoop, as on an object of prey.
3. a fine powder, as of cuttlebone, formerly used to prevent ink from spreading in writing, or to prepare parchment for writing.
4. a fine powder, often of charcoal, used in transferring a design through a perforated pattern.
5. Also called pounce bag, pounce box. a small bag filled with pounce and struck against a perforated design.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize (prey) suddenly:
2. to emboss (metal) by hammering on an instrument applied on the reverse side.
3. to sprinkle, smooth, or prepare with pounce.
4. to trace (a design) with pounce.
5. to finish the surface of (hats) by rubbing with sandpaper or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey.
2. to spring, dash, or come suddenly:

Origin of pounces

1375-1425; late Middle English; perhaps akin to punch¹

Examples for pounces

And for that, boycott-divestment supporters have been quick to pounce.

The clerk dusted the document with pounce, and handed it to the Duke.

She had two dwarfs of sons; one was named Spy, and the other pounce.

There was an ink-horn, a box of pounce, some quills, and a sheaf of paper there.

Before long, though, the cat did pounce on friends, and family, and colleagues.

Then he thought it would be an easy thing to pounce upon Daikoku.

The SPLC points to Tom DeWeese as one of the first pounce on the U.N. plan.

The cat was about to pounce down on the eggs when the Pope laid hold of it.

It was easy for the media to pounce when he admitted to lacking a comprehensive strategy for tackling ISIS.

In the event, in the long cat and mouse game that Stalin played with him, the cat did not pounce.