rundle

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 […]

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;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Synonym of umbel.

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.

A surname.

“We are alleging these various payments blatantly violated Florida election laws,” Fernandez Rundle said. “These payments were intended to influence the outcome of the election.”