different between rundlet vs rundle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ndl?t/

Noun

rundlet (plural rundlets)

1. A small barrel of no certain dimensions, which may contain from 3 to 20 gallons.
2. A measure for liquids, as for wine, usually 18.5 gallons.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205:

     Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

Anagrams

• trundle

English

Etymology

From round. Compare rondle, roundel.

Noun

rundle (plural rundles)

1. (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
   • 1683, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion

     […] 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 […]

2. (obsolete) A ball.

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3. (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     an axis or cylinder having a rundle about it

4. (engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Anagrams

• lurden, nurdle, nurled, rundel