| Summary: | round v . . .it was found requisite to cut a path of a hundred yards to pass over the point which the sledges could not round for want of sufficient ice being attached to it. 10 _h_. 30' we now rounded a bay leaving several islands on our left, the travelling pretty good, except in some places where the ice was very narrow, Withd . [We could consider this Buchan's British usage, his idiolectal vocabulary. But the sense is interesting: 'to [-]travel[-] haul sledges [-]along the[-] on the frozen ice along the [-]edge[-] shore of a [-]fresh[-] pond or lake.' B.] OED a b cites not close v 10 a little closer : 1743 is it Not used Not used Withdrawn
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