Word: rundle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From round. Compare rondle, roundel. 1. A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. Labels: obsolete Example: […] 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 […] Example: 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; 2. A circle. Labels: obsolete Example: 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. Example: 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. 3. A round object, a disk or ball. Labels: obsolete Example: 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. Example: 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. 4. Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan. Labels: obsolete Example: 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 declared when I come to speak of Rundles in generall. Example: That which is reckon'd for the fourth Faculty, is the Pulley: which is of such ordinary use, that it needs not any particular description. The chief parts of it are divers little rundles, that are movable about their proper axes. 5. Synonym of umbel. Labels: obsolete Example: The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do. Example: The Swallow-tail Butterfly feeds upon several of the Rundle-bearing plants of the fifth Class, which we know are endowed with similar qualities. 6. A cluster of leaves that radiate out from a central point, like the spokes of a wheel. Labels: obsolete Example: 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 three, and sometimes four of these rundles or circles of leaves, and bare without any leaf between; Example: The Martagon Imperial hath, as all the Martagons have, a scaly pale yellow root; the stalk riseth a yard high, of a brownish colour, beset at certain distances with rundles of broad green leaves, and naked betwixt; 7. One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel. Labels: obsolete Example: He invented a pneumatic engine, and a peculiar instrument of use in gnomonics to solve this problem: known plane, in a known elevation, to describe such lines with the expedite turning of rundles to certain divisions, as by the shadow of the stile may shew the equal hours of the day.' 8. A runnel. Labels: obsolete Example: There be other Husbandmen in Champain Conntries, of feeding as in Leicestershiere, and such like that put their swine to pease reekes, or stackes set in the fields neer unto water furrows or rundles, so that they may let the water into the stack yard, and then morning and evening cut a cutting of the stack or reek, and spread the reaps amonst the swine; Example: There be some which take a great deal of delight and pleasure to Snickle or halter the Pike, which is good when Pikes are broke out of Ponds or Rivers, and come into small Ditches or Rundles, as is oft to be seen in low-Countries.