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▪ I. runlet1 Now only arch. or Hist.|ˈrʌnlɪt|
Forms: α. 4–6 rondelet, 6–7 rondlet. β. 6 rundelet, 6–7 rundlett, 6–9 rundlet. γ. 5 ronlett, 6 ronelete, runlett, 7 ronlet, 7– 9 runlet. δ. 7 renlet(t.
[a. OF. rondelet, dim. of rondelle, f. ronde round a. Cf. roundlet.]
A cask or vessel of varying capacity; the quantity of liquor contained in this.
Large runlets appear usually to have varied between 12 and 18½ gallons, small ones between a pint or quart and 3 or 4 gallons.
α1394in Wylie Hist. Hen. IV, IV. 179 A Rondelet of Rumney. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 13 §1 Every Rondelet to holde xviij galons and an half. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 7 §4 The prices of..the butt, tonne, pype,..teers, barrell, or rondlett. 1593G. Harvey New Letter Wks. (Grosart) I. 280 Her beginning [is] like the purest Oyle in the crowne of the rondelet. 1605H. Plat Delightes for Ladies ii. xiv, I haue knowne Roseleaues kept well in Rondlets. 1618Dalton Countr. Just. lxv. (1630) 144 Sixteene gallons maketh the Rondlet. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 72, 1 Rundlet or Rondlet = 18½ Gallons.
β1542Rutland MSS. IV. 324 (Hist. MSS. Comm.), For the carege off a rwndlett off Mus[c]adene, viij d. 1588Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. 457 Any kilderkins, tertian, firkins or rundlets. 1600Nashe Summer's Last Will 486 Wks. (Grosart) VI. 105 Actors, bring now a black Iack, and a rundlet of Renish wine. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 72 Rundlet is now grown a general name to any small Cask not gage. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 150 My Men came aboard and brought a Rundlet of brackish Water. 1725De Foe Voy. r. World (1840) 6 One hundred and twenty two small ankers or rundlets of brandy. 1814Cary Dante, Inf. xxviii. 21 A rundlet, that hath lost Its middle or side stave, gapes not so wide. 1822Scott Nigel xvii, I will presently order you a rundlet of Rhenish. 1873Atlantic Monthly Jan. 48 He set out for the wreck, bringing back a boat which was given to them, with butter, sugar, a rundlet of wine, and chocolate.
fig.1594Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii, My bodie being the rundlet, and my mouth the vent. 1607Middleton Family of Love ii. iii, Lets pierce the rundlets of our running heads. 1651Cleveland Poems 11 When we have fil'd the Rundlets of our eyes, We'll issue't forth.
attrib.1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 161 (Cooper), The ‘Rundlet-cooper’ works principally for distillers and makers of various cordials.
γ1491–2Rec. St. Mary at Hill 179 For a ronlett of malvinseyn gevyn vnto master plomere. 1530Nottingham Rec. III. 184 Quatuor roneletes vini dulcis vocati Malvesy. 1579in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 401 Bruers measures, as barells,..firkins, runletts, ladlemeales. 1612T. Taylor Titus i. 7 They make their bodies like runlets or wine caskes. 1667Davenant & Dryden Tempest ii. i, The runlet of brandy was a loving runlet, and floated after us out of pure pity. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 50 At the bottom of the chest lay a runlet of brandy. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. v. 274 Then strain it out, and put it in a Runlet. 1814Southey Carmina Aulica Poet. Wks. III. 314 Many a runlet of right Nantes, I ween, Hath suffer'd percolation through that trunk. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. iii. 124 æneas [Sylvius] had received at a certain monastery a few loaves and a runlet of red wine. 1882Good Words 606 Who brought him venison pasties and apple turnovers and runlets of ale.
δ1616Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) I. 112, I sent my lord Careie a Renlett of choice aquavite. 1641Brome Joviall Crew v. Wks. 1873 III. 437 And perhaps save me the expence of a Renlet of sack the while.
▪ II. runlet2|ˈrʌnlɪt|
[f. run n.1 + -let.]
A little run or stream; a runnel; † a channel.
1755in Rutland Gloss. (1891) s.v., Paid..for two days Work at scowring Wire Lane Runlett, 20 June,..1s. 6d. 1801Wolcot (P. Pindar) Tears & Smiles Wks. 1812 V. 69 The runlet that murmurs away [seems] To wind with a murmur of woe. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Borders I. 18 It receives many little livelier runlets that brattle down the green hills on each side. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. v. 84 We found a well,..a runlet flowing from it down the rocky steps. |