Rundle

Quick meaning: Rundle is a noun meaning (engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Meaning

(engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

More Meanings

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. (obsolete) A runnel.

Example Sentences

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;

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.

[…] 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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• rundles

Synonyms for rundle

Depending on context, synonyms include umbel, spoke, rung.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rung, spoke, step, rondle, round, range.

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