variants or runlet
as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar

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Noun
  • The late, great super fan Tim McKernan must be rolling over in his barrel.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Every September and December, Broadbelt would stuff barrels with care packages, gifts and school supplies to send back to Jamaica.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The music thumped away, though at reduced volume, the bats performed their acrobatics over the pool, the hash pipe glowed, people began to yawn.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Zajicek, signed in the offseason, had thus far played all his hockey in his native Czechia but looked right at home between the pipes for the B’s.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Under stressful conditions, with cysteine unavailable to the free radicals being produced, the tardigrades couldn’t form tuns.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The agaves are cut into one inch cubes and then cooked for seven hours in a heated mash tun equipped with a stream jacket.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
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“Rundlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rundlet. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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