rundle

noun8

1. •
   (no longer used) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.

   • […] 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
2. •
   (no longer used) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
3. •
   (no longer used) A circle.

   • 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
4. •
   (no longer used) A round object, a disk or ball.

   • 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
5. •
   (no longer used) A cluster of leaves that radiate out from a central point, like the spokes of a wheel.
6. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of umbel.

   • The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do. — 1710
7. •
   (no longer used) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.

   • 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
8. •
   (no longer used) A runnel.

   • Children's kidneys are like those of veal, full of little rundles, and they grow into a compact intire substance afterwards. — 1757