A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell
simple past of ring
With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung, / Belle Chuck was now the TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
[…] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
A surname.
From Middle English rung, from Old English hrung, from Proto-West Germanic *hrungu, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Cognate with Dutch rong (“pole, stanchion”), German Runge (“stake, pole, stanchion”), G...
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