roundle
(ˈraʊnd(ə)l)
[var. of roundel.]
1. A ring or circle; an object of circular form; a disc, round plate, etc. (Cf. roundel.) Now rare.
| 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 206 Take the rout of Dragons made cleen and cut in to thin roundles. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 128 Good it is also to cut them into roundles. 1632 Sir S. D'Ewes Autobiog. (1845) II. 72, I caused them all [sc. coins] to be put into roundles of ivory, and placed them in drawers in a box. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 88/1 The flowers grow in roundles, towards the top of the stalk. 1855 tr. Labarte's Arts Mid. Ages p. xxix, Painted roundles or fruit trenchers. 1887 Parish & Shaw Kent Gloss., Roundle,..the part of a hop-oast where the fires are made, which is generally circular. |
b. Her. One of various circular changes distinguished by their tincture. (Cf. roundel 5 b.)
| 1610 J. Guillim Her. iv. xix, Of the first sort are Roundles, of which Leigh giueth examples of nine sundry. 1688 Holme Armoury i. 60/2, I shall in the first place speak of the Rounds, Roundles, or Roundlets. 1728 Chambers Cycl., Pellets, in Heraldry, a Name given those Roundles which are Black; call'd also Ogresses and Gun-stones. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xvii. (ed. 3) 260 He charged this group upon a roundle. 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 73 Roundles are small circular figures—of frequent occurrence in Heraldry—forming a distinct group of Charges. |
c. = roundel 3 b.
| 1869 Boutell Arms & Armour x. 193 The roundles at the elbows and shoulders sometimes assumed the form of lions' faces. Ibid. 196. |
† 2. A sphere or globe. Obs. (Cf. roundel 6 a.)
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 30 We speake..[of] the round ball of the earth; and confesse that it is a globe... But yet the forme is not of a perfect and absolute roundle. 1609 ― Amm. Marcell. xx. iii. 145 The Sunne..and the roundle of the Moone. 1674 Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 182 To find out a scantling beyond which the roundle or globe of the earth is not. |
† 3. A round of a ladder. Obs. (Cf. roundel 7.)
| 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 25 Things..which..serve..to judicious beliefs as scales and rondles to mount the pinnacles.. of Divinity. a 1663 Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 310 When they are in the top of their Jollity and gotten to the uppermost Roundle of the ladder. |
† 4. = roundel 9. Obs.
| 1544 Lydgate's Bochas Prol. li, Complaintes, ballades, roundles [Bodl. MS. roundelis], virelaies. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 125 Sike a roundle never heard I none. |