rondle
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Compare rondel.
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rondle (plural rondles)
- (obsolete) A rondeau.
- (obsolete) A round mass, plate, or disk, especially the crust or scale that forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
- (obsolete) A round or rung; a step of a ladder.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rondle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)