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Rundel vs Rondel - What's the difference?

rundel | rondel |

As nouns the difference between rundel and rondel

is that rundel is (uk|dialect) a circle or rundel can be a moat with water in it while 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.

rundel

English

Etymology 1

Compare rundle, roundel.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A circle.

    • Etymology 2

    Compare rindle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A moat with water in it.
  • A small stream; a runlet.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

    rondel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rondelle (uncommon in the musical or poetic senses) * (dagger) roundel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * roundel

    Related terms

    * rondelet * rondo * roundelay * roundlet