rundle

[…] that mysterious ladder, whose foot being upon the earth, the top of it reached unto heaven, seen by Jacob in a vision, with angels ascending and descending on the rundles of it […]

And although that in the partitions or spaces seuerally there be diuers seuerall figures, yet the principall accompt of numbering is that accompt of the pictures or rundles therein contained.

Others ascribe the cause thereof, to the thickenesse of clouds, which suddenly and after an hidden maner, overcast the rundle and plate of the Sunne.

This is the Coat-armour of the worthy Gentleman Thomas Covell, one of the Captains of the City of London; here I tell not the colour of the Bezants, because every Rundle in Armory (of which sort these Bezants are) hat his proper colour and name in Blazon, as shall hereafter be more particularly declared when I come to speak of Rundles in generall.

The Flowers hereof are purple, and grow in rundles about the Stalks, as the others do.

The stalk is brownish and round at the bottom, and sometimes that from the middle upwards, three foot high or more, beset at certain distances with rundles or circles of many broad leaves, larger and broader for the most part than any other of this kinde, and of a dark green colour; It hath two or three, and sometimes four of these rundles or circles of leaves, and bare without any leaf between;

He invented a pneumatic engine, and a peculiar instrument of use in gnomonics to solve this problem: known plane, in a known elevation, to describe such lines with the expedite turning of rundles to certain divisions, as by the shadow of the stile may shew the equal hours of the day.'

There be other Husbandmen in Champain Conntries, of feeding as in Leicestershiere, and such like that put their swine to pease reekes, or stackes set in the fields neer unto water furrows or rundles, so that they may let the water into the stack yard, and then morning and evening cut a cutting of the stack or reek, and spread the reaps amonst the swine;