rung

A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

A crosspiece between legs of a chair.

One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.

A position in a hierarchy.

the lowest rung of the society

“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”

A floor timber in a ship.

One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.

[…] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.

A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.

A surname.