Vocabulary : Rundle to Runner

Rundle : A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. ;; A ball. ;; Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. ;; One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Rundlet : A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.
Rune : A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general. ;; Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
Runer : A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.
Rung : of Ring ;; of Ring ;; imp. & p. p. of Ring. ;; A floor timber in a ship. ;; One of the rounds of a ladder. ;; One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff. ;; One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Runghead : The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Runic : Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Runlet : A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. ;; Same as Rundlet.
Runnel : A rivulet or small brook.
Runner : One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability. ;; One who, or that which, runs; a racer. ;; A detective. ;; A messenger. ;; A smuggler. ;; One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. ;; A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. ;; The rotating stone of a set of millstones. ;; A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. ;; One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. ;; A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. ;; A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. ;; The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. ;; A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack,
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