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Rundel vs Rundle - What's the difference?

rundel | rundle |

As nouns the difference between rundel and rundle

is that rundel is a circle while rundle is a round; a step of a ladder; a rung.

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)

    rundle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
  • * Brian Duppa
  • (obsolete) A ball.
    • (Holland)
  • (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • an axis or cylinder having a rundle about it
  • (engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
    • (Webster 1913)