Rondel vs Hondel - What's the difference?
rondel | hondel |
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
A poem in the above form.
The verse form rondeau.
A poem in the above rondeau form.
A rondelle, (small) circular object.
A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
to bargain, to haggle
* 1977 , Janet Kaplan and Judy Stacey Goldman, The Underground Jerusalem Guide , Keter Pub. House:
* 2000 , Paul Wilkes, And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation , Grove Press, p. 135:
* 2002 , Zalman Velvel,
* 2007 , Don Winslow, The Winter of Frankie Machine , Vintage Books, p. 53:
As a noun rondel
is a metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.As a verb hondel is
to bargain, to haggle.rondel
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Alternative forms
* rondelle (uncommon in the musical or poetic senses) * (dagger) roundelNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* roundelhondel
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Verb
- It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns.
- Some might call it religious hondeling , but Rabbi Rosenbaum finds himself doing just that, and more often than he cares to admit.
What is a Jew?:
- The Rabbi began to hondel with God, like Abraham, only in reverse. He asked for permission to make a 100 mistakes, then a thousand.
- And I'll turn the offer down because it's a boss's kid, which Vince will understand: then we'll get down to the real hondeling .
