rundle
/ɹˈʌndəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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;"
- "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."
- "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."
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Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.