rundel
English
Etymology 2
Compare rindle.
Noun
rundel (plural rundels)
- A moat with water in it.
- A small stream; a runlet.
- 1587, William Harrison, Description Of Elizabethan England:
- An infinit sort of small streames, brookes, beckes, waters, and rundels.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 rundel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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