| 释义 | rundletn.1Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rondelet.Etymology:  <  Anglo-Norman rondelet, rundelete (a1350 or earlier), probably  <  rondel  rondel n.   + -et  -et suffix1. Compare Middle French rondelle   (14th cent.), and also (in different senses) Middle French rondelet   (see roundlet n.   and rondelet n.). Compare post-classical Latin rondelectum  , rondellettum  , roundelettum   (frequently from 1324 in British sources), apparently  <  Anglo-Norman, hence implying earlier currency of the Anglo-Norman word. Compare roundlet n.society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > 			[noun]		β. 1434–6    in  R. W. Chambers  & M. Daunt  		(1931)	 237  				vj Roundelettes of Resins of Corence.1466    Expenses J. Paston's Funeral in   		(1904)	 IV. 227  				For a roundlet of red wine of xv. gallonys.1538    A. Fitzherbert  109  				The price of the But, Tone, Hoggeshede, Punchion, Tierce, Barel or Roundelet to be sold in grosse.1594    H. Plat  70  				Set your roundelet in the sunne.1656    T. Blount   				Roundlet, a certain measure of Wine, Oyle, &c. containing eighteen Gallons and an half.1684    T. Guidott  2  				Some of those who used to have it of him in Bottles, found so much good by it, that they desired him to bring it in Roundlets.1727    P. Longueville  238  				There being a small Roundlet lying by empty, he takes one of the Ends of it, in which the next Day he beat Butter.1754    E. Burt  II. xviii. 83  				Horses loaded with Roundlets of Usky.1809    A. Clifford in   I. vii. 590  				In bishop Gibson's days, a roundlet of good claret was as frequently to be met with in Northumberland as in Middlesex.1879     31 Oct. 1/4 		(advt.)	  				Implements.—Thrashing machine..milk tubs, roundlets, churn, [etc.].1903     37 52/2  				A quantity of buttermilk was delivered in six roundlets.2003    I. S. Hornsey  vi. 353  				After a while the fermenting mass was run into the casks known as roundlets—where further fermentation occurred.γ. 1471    E. Paston in   		(2004)	 I. 634  				My modyre..prays ȝow þat ȝe wyl bye here a runlet of malmesey owthe of þe galey.1491–2    in  H. Littlehales  		(1905)	 179  				For a ronlett of malvinseyn gevyn vnto master plomere.1530    in  W. H. Stevenson  		(1885)	 III. 184  				Quatuor roneletes vini dulcis vocati Malvesy.1579    in  W. H. Turner  		(1880)	 401  				Bruers measures, as barells,..firkins, runletts, ladlemeales.1612    T. Taylor  i. 7  				They make their bodies like runlets or wine caskes.1670    J. Dryden  & W. Davenant   ii. 18  				The Runlet of Brandy was a loving Runlet, and floated after us out of pure pity.1736      i. v. 194  				Then strain it out, and put it in a Runlet.1814    R. Southey Carmina Aulica in   III. 314  				Many a runlet of right Nantes, I ween, Hath suffer'd percolation through that trunk.1851    T. H. Turner  I. iii. 124  				Æneas [Sylvius] had received at a certain monastery a few loaves and a runlet of red wine.1882     23 606  				Who brought him venison pasties and apple turnovers and runlets of ale.1910    E. Phillpotts   iii. ii. 209  				He rested presently, and the boy brought him a little runlet of cider.1932    H. Quinn Quiet Twelfth in   92  				The words come trippin' out of ye betimes like buttermilk gurglin' out of a runlet.1988    H. A. Klein  iii. 44  				The kilderkin corresponded to a measure known in 1483 as the runlet.δ. 1484     		(Electronic ed.)	 Parl. Jan. 1484 §31. m. 21  				Every rondelet to holde .xviij. galons and an half.1531–2     c. 7 §4  				The prices of..the butt, tonne, pype,..teers, barrell, or rondlett.1593    G. Harvey New Let. in   		(1884)	 I. 280  				Her beginning [is] like the purest Oyle in the crowne of the rondelet.?1600    H. Plat  sig. E9  				I haue knowne Roseleaues kept well in Rondlets.1618    M. Dalton  117  				Sixteene gallons. maketh the Rondlet.a1690    S. Jeake  		(1696)	 72  				1 Rundlet or Rondlet = 18½ Gallons.ε. 1616    in   		(1886)	 1st Ser. I. 112  				I sent my lord Careie a Renlett of choice aquavite.1637    in  E. George et al.   		(2002)	 103  				4 renletts of sixe gallones apeece of french brand wine... One renlett of 4 gallons of the same wine.1652    R. Brome   v. sig. N1  				And perhaps save me the expence of a Renlet of Sack the while.α.  1380–1    in  J. T. Fowler  		(1901)	 III. 590 (MED)  				In uno rundlet vini del Rien cont. 60 lag. empt. apud Nov. Castr. c1436    Domesday Ipswich 		(BL Add. 25011)	 in  T. Twiss  		(1873)	 II. 187  				Of every rundelet [Fr. rundelete] of the same merchaundise, ob. 1542    in  Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland 		(1905)	 IV. 324 in   (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301  				For the carege off a rwndlett off Mus[c]adene, viij d. 1588    W. Lambarde  		(new ed.)	  iv. iv. 457  				Any kilderkins, tertian, firkins or rundlets. 1600    T. Nashe Summers Last Will 486 in   		(Grosart)	 VI. 105  				Actors, bring now a black Iack, and a rundlet of Renish wine. 1636    J. Winthrop Let. 10 Apr. in   		(1825)	 		(modernized text)	 I. App. 391  				A rundlet of sack. 1703    W. Dampier  iii. 150  				My Men came aboard and brought a Rundlet of brackish Water. 1725    D. Defoe   i. 6  				122 small Anchors or Rundlets of Brandy. 1814    H. F. Cary tr.  Dante  I.  xxviii. 121  				A rundlet, that hath lost Its middle or side stave, gapes not so wide. 1895    M. A. Jackson  523  				He commended to my own use a rundlet of cognac, as being much too good to be staved. 1913    A. F. Wallis  		(1914)	 xxiii. 280  				The fellow that had just entered the hold with a handful of biscuits and a little rundlet of burnt wine. 1931    A. Bryant   i. ii. 51  				[He] assured the authorities that they contained nothing but a rundlet of wine and two firkins of soap. 1960    J. Barth   ii. xxvii. 413  				This blackguard Bradnox never paid me for that liquor—a rundlet in all, give or take a dram. 2006    C. Frazier   iii. v. 273  				Smith..took a rundlet from his saddlebag and drank a long pull.1594    J. Lyly   iii. ii. sig. E2  				My bodie being the rundlet, and my mouth the vent. 1608    T. Middleton  		(new ed.)	  ii. sig. B4 v  				Lets pierce the Rundlets of our running heads. 1638    J. Cleveland in  Obsequies 10 in    				When we have fill'd the rundlets of our eyes, We'll issue 't forth.Compounds 1813    ‘T. Martin’  235/2  				Rundlet-cooper is a second branch of this trade. 1837    N. Whittock et al.   161  				The Rundlet-cooper works principally for distillers and makers of various cordials. 1910    J. A. Rees  II. 172  				There were doubtless in the same district many ‘dry-coopers’, so called..in opposition to the ‘rundlet-coopers’ who made casks capable of holding liquids.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).rundletn.2Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rundle n.1, -et suffix1.Etymology:  <  rundle n.1 + -et suffix1, partly as alteration of roundlet n.1597    J. Gerard   ii. cxxi. 564  				The leaues [of mountain sideritis] are much narrower, otherwise like, hauing small rough rundlets or tufts, pale of colour like Marrubium. 1776    W. Withering  I. Introd. p. xxxvi  				We examine the specimen, and find a Fence to each Rundle and likewise a Fence to each Rundlet. 1831    W. Patrick  132  				Each of the stems or rays, which form these rundles or umbels, as they are called, are frequently crowned by a rundlet, or smaller set of rays.the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > 			[noun]		 > a circle or ring > small1611    J. Florio   				Fondello, rundlets to lay vnder dishes as they vse in Germany. 1661    T. Blount  		(ed. 2)	 at Trochisk  				A little Rundlet or Cake whereinto divers medicinable things are reduced. 1671    J. Webster  xvii. 242  				I do not know that great masses of Copper..have been digged up; but rather certain little masses of a very various figure: to wit, sometimes in the figure of drops or isicles, of little rods, or little rundlets, or globes. 1704    tr.  I. de la Peyrère Acct. Greenland in  A. Churchill  & J. Churchill  II. 466/1  				The Demi-circle underneath being fastened to the uppermost Circle, or round Hole like a Rundlet, where it opens towards its Paniers. 1875    W. D. Parish   				Rundlet, a small circle. 1917     Jan. 43/2  				The rundlets and pegs of the yoke.†3. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > 			[noun]		 > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns1672    E. Ashmole  xxi. 574  				These Mantles are of Taffety..; upon the right shoulder of which is a Scutcheon of St. Georges Arms within a Rundelet, imbroidered with Gold and Silk.society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > 			[noun]		 > less honourable charge > circular device1688    R. Holme   i. vi. 60/2  				It is not requisite in Blason, to name the colloars of these nine Rundlets, except they be counter changed.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).<  n.11380  n.21597 |