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roundle|ˈraʊnd(ə)l|
[var. of roundel.]
1. A ring or circle; an object of circular form; a disc, round plate, etc. (Cf. roundel.) Now rare.
1559Morwyng Evonym. 206 Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles. 1601Holland Pliny II. 128 Good it is also to cut them into roundles. 1632Sir S. D'Ewes Autobiog. (1845) II. 72, I caused them all [sc. coins] to be put into roundles of ivory, and placed them in drawers in a box. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 88/1 The flowers grow in roundles, towards the top of the stalk. 1855tr. Labarte's Arts Mid. Ages p. xxix, Painted roundles or fruit trenchers. 1887Parish & Shaw Kent Gloss., Roundle,..the part of a hop-oast where the fires are made, which is generally circular.
b. Her. One of various circular changes distinguished by their tincture. (Cf. roundel 5 b.)
1610J. Guillim Her. iv. xix, Of the first sort are Roundles, of which Leigh giueth examples of nine sundry. 1688Holme Armoury i. 60/2, I shall in the first place speak of the Rounds, Roundles, or Roundlets. 1728Chambers Cycl., Pellets, in Heraldry, a Name given those Roundles which are Black; call'd also Ogresses and Gun-stones. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xvii. (ed. 3) 260 He charged this group upon a roundle. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 73 Roundles are small circular figures—of frequent occurrence in Heraldry—forming a distinct group of Charges.
c. = roundel 3 b.
1869Boutell Arms & Armour x. 193 The roundles at the elbows and shoulders sometimes assumed the form of lions' faces. Ibid. 196.
†2. A sphere or globe. Obs. (Cf. roundel 6 a.)
1601Holland Pliny I. 30 We speake..[of] the round ball of the earth; and confesse that it is a globe... But yet the forme is not of a perfect and absolute roundle. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xx. iii. 145 The Sunne..and the roundle of the Moone. 1674Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 182 To find out a scantling beyond which the roundle or globe of the earth is not.
†3. A round of a ladder. Obs. (Cf. roundel 7.)
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 25 Things..which..serve..to judicious beliefs as scales and rondles to mount the pinnacles.. of Divinity. a1663Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 310 When they are in the top of their Jollity and gotten to the uppermost Roundle of the ladder.
†4. = roundel 9. Obs.
1544Lydgate's Bochas Prol. li, Complaintes, ballades, roundles [Bodl. MS. roundelis], virelaies. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 125 Sike a roundle never heard I none. |