Definition of "rundle" [run•dle]

• A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. (noun)
• A ball. (noun)
• Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan. (noun)
• One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel. (noun)

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• ""If we both live long enough, Doctor, you may see me on the topmost rundle, for I shall climb with unwearying effort.""
• "In like manner, from throw and roll is made troll, and almost in the same sense is trundle, from throw or thrust, and rundle."
• ""Aweel, sirs," I exclaimed, "ye see there isna ony creatur here, our nainsell's out-taken; seek again an ye winna creed a bodie; may be the bogle is jumpit into the pot on the rundle-tree ower the ingle, or creepit into the meal ark or aiblins it scoupit thro 'the hole as ye cam in at the door."