# Pouncing (not cat related) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458 "2017-04-28T22:18:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/21 "2017-05-02T19:20:38Z")
Painted some murals in college. Used the pounce wheel and powder. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/22 "2017-05-03T23:49:57Z")
I thought it was that powder that one would shake onto ink handwriting, to dry or absorb excess ink. Fancy antique inkstands would hold an ink container and a pounce shaker. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/23 "2017-05-03T23:55:43Z")
My mom uses the tool sometimes, but I’ve never heard it called that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/24 "2017-05-04T01:15:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > … > There’s also a type of pounce that used to be used in mechanical and architectural drafting. It contained tiny eraser particles that removed light pencil markings and dirt from ink drawings. I may still have one somewhere. I remember having and using one of those eraser bags in HS drafting in the '70s. I still have most of my hand tools from those classes: lead holders, pointers, triangles, eraser shields, Ames lettering guides, etc. Including some now very rock-like specialty erasers. But not the eraser bag. Thanks for the memories. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/25 "2017-05-04T02:13:45Z")
My mom always had one on her sewing table, I had no idea what it was for. I thought it was for cleaning up seams. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/26 "2017-05-04T15:08:35Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > It’s not another form of “ponce” is it? [Yes.](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ponce_wheel) Over here in the colonies, we don’t use the superfluous U. ’ ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/27 "2017-05-04T16:15:16Z")
I would know. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458/28 "2017-05-04T19:18:38Z")
Don’t own a pounce wheel but the ounce bag is any bag that is open on the floor particularly if it contains the other cat. Or in other words in answer to the OP’s question: Nope never heard of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pouncing-not-cat-related/785458.md?page=1)