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▪ I. ˈpendule, n. Now rare.
Also 7 pendul.
[In sense 1, app. ad. L. pendul-us pendulous; cf. It. pendulo ‘downe-hanging or dangling’ (Florio); in senses 2, 3, a. F. pendule (1664 pendulle).]
1. Something pendulous or suspended.
†a. gen.
1578Banister Hist. Man vii. 90 A round, long, and litle thicke pendule, called..Vuula.
b. A hanging ornament, a pendant; an ear-pendant. rare. (Cf. obs. F. pendille.)
1683in A. Shields Faithful Contendings (1780) 108 Yea, one pendule of his crown should not be yielded. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxviii. (1856) 230 [He] rejoiced in a couple of barbaric pendules, doubtless of bad gold, but good conducting power.
2.
†a. A pendulum. [F. pendule masc.] Obs.
1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 114 The use of Pendules for knowing by their means the State of one's Health from the different beatings of the Pulse. a1683Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 12 Moved by a spring, pendule, or poise, which first gives motion to the first wheel. 1798Frere & Canning Loves of Triangles 13 in Anti-Jacobin No. 23 Let playful Pendules quick vibration feel.
b. Mountaineering. = pendulum n. 1 d.
1957E. A. Wrangham Sel. Climbs Range Mont Blanc 170 Rappel down from the summit on the Verte side, go over a gendarme by a small pendule on the Charpoua side. 1967Collomb & Crew Sel. Climbs Mont Blanc Range I. 180 Traverse L across a very steep ice couloir to a thin and high rock island and continue the traverse by a pendule from a peg high on this island. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon xvi. 232 We had a spectacular pendule by Tom Patey, as he swung out from the base of the over⁓hanging rock. 1973J. Bunting Climbing 90 Pendule, a horizontal abseil effected by a sideways swing.
3. a. A time-piece having a pendulum; a clock, usually small and ornamental. Now only as Fr. pendule |pɑ̃dyl| fem. †b. Short for pendulum-watch: see pendulum n. 4 b (obs.).
1661Evelyn Diary 3 May, I return'd by Fromantil's the famous clock-maker to see some pendules. 1664–5Phil. Trans. I. 14 The difference..will not be at all perceived in the Penduls. 1670Ibid. V. 1149 Directions how to find the Longitudes by the Pendul. 1865Cornh. Mag. July 10 The little pendule on the chimney piece struck the half-hour. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 264 Escape wheels of French pendules make two revolutions a minute.
4. attrib.
1661Evelyn Diary 1 Apr., That great mathematician and virtuoso [Huyghens], inventor of the pendule clock. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 152 They sow also a Wheat about Weston on the Green, which from the hanging of its ear they call Pendule Wheat. [Cf. pendulum-wheat s.v. pendulum 4 b.]
▪ II. pendule, v. Mountaineering.|ˈpɛndjʊl|
[f. the n.]
intr. To swing to and fro like a pendulum. Also refl.
1883G. MacDonald Princess & Curdie xvi. 128 He dropped himself a little below its level, gave the rope a swing by pushing his feet against the side of the cleft, and so penduled himself into it. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon x. 148 He was now sixty feet up. He paused,..let out some rope and penduled back and forth across the face, trying to work out the best line. |