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rundled

rundled adjective: having rundles; runged.

Adjective

rundled (not comparable)

  1. Having rundles; runged.
    • But Aiax a farre greater ſtone, lift vp, and (vvreathing round, / VVith all his bodie layd to it) he ſent it forth to vvound, / And gaue vnmeaſur'd force to it; the round ſtone broke vvithin / His rundled target: […][1611?], Homer, “The Seventh Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 101
    • We now come to another kind of ladder, namely, the rundled pole. In this ladder the rundles or steps are run completely through a single pole, instead of being fixed through two upright beams, and they project to an equal distance on each side.1767, The Popular Educator, page 369

Origin of rundled

From rundle + -ed.

Questions about rundled

What does rundled mean?
Rundled means having rundles; runged.
What part of speech is rundled?
Rundled is an adjective.

Words near rundled in the dictionary

  1. rundels
  2. Rundi
  3. rundkarren
  4. Rundkvist
  5. rundle
  6. rundled
  7. rundles
  8. rundlet
  9. rundlets
  10. rundown
  11. rundowns

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