rundel

Noun

rundle (plural rundles)

1. (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
   • […] 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 […]1683, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion
2. (obsolete) A circle.
   • 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.1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes - Volume 3, page 1067
3. (obsolete) A round object, a disk or ball.
   • 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.1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, page 824
4. (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
   • This is the Coat-armour of the worthy Gentleman Thomas Covell, one of the Captains of the City of London; here I tell not the colour of the Bezants, because every Rundle in Armory (of which sort these Bezants are) hat his proper colour and name in Blazon, as shall hereafter be more particularly...1664, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 187
5. (obsolete) Synonym of umbel.
   • The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do.1710, William Salmon, Botanologia: The English Herbal, page 845

   Synonyms:

   umbel

6. (obsolete) A cluster of leaves that radiate out from a central point, like the spokes of a wheel.
   • The stalk is brownish and round at the bottom, and sometimes that from the middle upwards, three foot high or more, beset at certain distances with rundles or circles of many broad leaves, larger and broader for the most part than any other of this kinde, and of a dark green colour; It hath two or...1656, John Parkinson, Paradisi In Sole, page 31

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