pounce

A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.

At the Thorn, or at a meagre kitchen table, or even on the carpenter’s workbench, he spreads open the portfolio, lights a candle stub, slices a fresh quill, and arranges pounce pot and ink well.

Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.

To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.

to pounce paper, or a pattern

A sudden leaping attack.

Again the cat jolted the bed with a pounce.

The claw or talon of a bird of prey.

March 22 1775, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on conciliation with America You have , indeed , winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea

And from her griping pounce the greedy prey doth quarry

A punch or stamp.

a pounce to print money with

Cloth worked in eyelet holes.

one spendeth his patrimony upon pounces and cuts

Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).