Definition of "rundlet" []

• A small barrel of no certain dimensions, which may contain from 3 to 20 gallons. (noun)
• A measure for liquids, as for wine, usually 18.5 gallons. (noun)

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• "Two firkins, or bushels, make a measure called a rundlet or kilderkin, liquid, and a strike, dry."
• "No sooner was this arrangement made, than Lord Glenvarloch expressed to Lowestoffe his impatience to leave this discreditable assembly, and took his leave with a careless haste, which, but for the rundlet of Rhenish wine that entered just as he left the apartment, might have been taken in bad part."
• "While we were required to take up these presents, I chanced to cast an eye upon the table, where there lay a fresh service of cheese-cakes and tarts, and in the midst of them a lusty rundlet, stuck round with all sorts of apples and grapes, as they commonly draw that figure."