rundle

1. (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.Examples: "[…] 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;"obsolete

2. (obsolete) A circle.Examples: "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."obsolete

3. (obsolete) A round object, a disk or ball.Examples: "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."obsolete

4. (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.Examples: "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."; "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."; "The Second Part of it is a moveable Rundle, the Circle whereeof is fixed to the Center of the Circle of Hours, that so you may turn it round, as occasion requires. The utmost Circle of this Rundle is divided into 12 parts, for the 12 Months, each Month having its Name prefix'd to it in Roman Capital Letters, and each Day in the Month distinguish'd with a small Stroke, and every Tenth Stroke, for the readier counting the Days, drawn longer, and marked with Figures, 10, 20, &c. according to the Number of Strokes from the beginning of the Month."obsolete

5. (obsolete) Synonym of umbel.Examples: "The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do."; "The Swallow-tail Butterfly feeds upon several of the Rundle-bearing plants of the fifth Class, which we know are endowed with similar qualities."; "If you pursue one of these rundles or umbels, you will find that each stick or spoke terminates in another set of smaller stalks, each of which bears a single small flower."Synonyms: umbelobsolete

6. (obsolete) A cluster of leaves that radiate out from a central point, like the spokes of a wheel.Examples: "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;"; "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;"; "The virginian martagon, pale yellow scaly root, the stalk rises yard-high, beset with sharp-pointed whitish green leaves, in rundles, the head bearing three or four, or more, somewhat large flowers turning back, of a gold yellow colour, with many brown spots about the bottom of the flowers, the points or ends of the leaves that turn up, of a red or scarlet colour without spots: a very tender plant and must be defended from winter's frosts."obsolete