Definition of "rundle"

[…] 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 […]

1683, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion

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;

1693, William De Britaine, Humane Prudence: Or, The Art by which a Man May Raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur, page 224

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.

1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes - Volume 3, page 1067

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.

1633, John Speed, The Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, page 40

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.

1769, John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense, page 780

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.

1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, page 824

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.

1661, Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature

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.

1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 78

The parts of the stage are the following: In Plate III. figure 2, the stripe ab shews one side of a trestle-frame; cd another side; ef a rundle fastened into these by tenon and mortice; gh another fastened rundle; and ik the third and lowest rundle.

1801, Bryan Higgins, Observations and Advices for the Improvement of the Manufacture of Muscovado Sugar and Rum, page 287

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.

1664, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 187

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.

1680, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick, page 43

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.

1731, The Use of the Mathematical Instrument Called the Quadrant

The chief are divers little rundles, which are moveable about their proper axes: these are usually divided according to their several situations, into the upper and lower.

1788, Thomas Skaife, A key to civil architecture, page 16

The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do.

1710, William Salmon, Botanologia: The English Herbal, page 845

The Swallow-tail Butterfly feeds upon several of the Rundle-bearing plants of the fifth Class, which we know are endowed with similar qualities.

1776, William Withering, A Botanical Arrangement Of All The Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, page XIII

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.

1794, Evenings at Home; or, the juvenile budget opened, page 73

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;

1656, John Parkinson, Paradisi In Sole, page 31

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;

1676, John Rea, Flora: Seu, De Florum Cultura, page 40

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.

1775, The Complete Florist, page 95

He invented a pneumatic engine, and a peculiar instrument of use in gnomonics to solve this problem: known plane, in a known elevation, to describe such lines with the expedite turning of rundles to certain divisions, as by the shadow of the stile may shew the equal hours of the day.'

1781, William Preston, Illustrations of Masonry, page 213

There be other Husbandmen in Champain Conntries, of feeding as in Leicestershiere, and such like that put their swine to pease reekes, or stackes set in the fields neer unto water furrows or rundles, so that they may let the water into the stack yard, and then morning and evening cut a cutting of the stack or reek, and spread the reaps amonst the swine;

1648, G. M., Cheape and Good Husbandry, page 136

There be some which take a great deal of delight and pleasure to Snickle or halter the Pike, which is good when Pikes are broke out of Ponds or Rivers, and come into small Ditches or Rundles, as is oft to be seen in low-Countries.

1683, Gervase Markham, A Way to get Wealth

Children's kidneys are like those of veal, full of little rundles, and they grow into a compact intire substance afterwards.

1757, Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London

ITEM whether doth all the grounds called the Westwood of Ilkeley als. the new close lye ouer the one side of the said becke or rundle and on the west side of the said brooke or no And which be all the grounds called the Westwood .

1890, Yorkshire Notes and Queries, page 21