Rune vs Runt - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rune and runt

is that rune is air-hole (of a chimney) while runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or,.

(runes)

(en noun)

A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.

A Finnish poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.

Any verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; an incantation.

* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, page 15:

the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside.

(obsolete) A roun.

* runecraft * runelore * runester * runology, runologist

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(en noun)

The smallest animal of a litter, or,

The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."

Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

(computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.

(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.

A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.

(Halliwell)

Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.

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