Meaning

(obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
2. (obsolete) A circle.
3. (obsolete) A round object, a disk or ball.
4. (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of umbel.
6. (obsolete) A cluster of leaves that radiate out from a central point, like the spokes of a wheel.
7. (engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
8. (obsolete) A runnel.

Example Sentences

[…] that mysterious ladder, whose foot being upon the earth, the top of it reached unto heaven, seen by Jacob in a vision, with angels ascending and descending on the rundles of it […]

for I have observed that Wisdom many times gives a check to Confidence , which is the Scale and Rundle by which many climb up to the Pinacle;

And although that in the partitions or spaces seuerally there be diuers seuerall figures, yet the principall accompt of numbering is that accompt of the pictures or rundles therein contained.

The names of Nations and People, ( as likewise sometimes of cities and other places of note) we haue not incompassed in rundles as the rest, but in Compartiments, & different letters bectweene direct lines, that so they might be knowne from particular persons, & the Names next vnder them, are not inserted as certainely thence descended, but as eminent persons among them.

On a grave stone are the following arms, viz. A fesse wavy between three stone fountains, impaling three rundles, each charged with a fret; the crest, a stone fountain, and this inscription.

Others ascribe the cause thereof, to the thickenesse of clouds, which suddenly and after an hidden maner, overcast the rundle and plate of the Sunne.

These I have described in the third Figure, adding the small Tooth, as in the fourth the hinder part of the Rundles of the second Figure, with the space in the middle Rundle, into which the small Tooth of the small Rundle is fastned.

This core is passed through two copper rundles, one at each end of the mould, which they serve to close; and to these is joined a little copper tube about two inches long, and of the thckness the leaden pipe is intended to be of.

Word Forms

• rundles

Synonyms for rundle

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When Should You Use Rundle?

Use rundle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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