Synonyms of the word

rung

• n. A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
• n. A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
• n. (nautical, dated) A floor timber in a ship.
• n. (dated) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
• n. (engineering, dated) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
• n. (engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
• v. past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell).
• v. (chiefly dialectal) simple past tense of ring.

crosspiece

• n. A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
• n. (nautical) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

round

• adj. (physical) Shape.
• adj. Complete, whole, not lacking.
• adj. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• adj. (linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
• adj. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
• adj. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• adj. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• adj. Large in magnitude.
• n. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• n. A circular or repetitious route.
• n. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• n. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• n. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• n. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• n. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• n. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• n. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical…
• n. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing…
• n. (sports) A stage in a competition.
• n. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
• n. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for…
• n. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary,…
• n. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
• n. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• n. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• n. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance;…
• n. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated…
• n. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• n. A circular dance.
• n. Rotation, as in office; succession.
• n. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• n. An assembly; a group; a circle.
• n. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• n. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• n. (nautical) A round-top.
• n. A round of beef.
• prep. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• adv. Alternative form of around.
• v. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• v. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• v. (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
• v. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
• v. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• v. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• v. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• v. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• v. To encircle; to encompass.
• v. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak…
• v. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter…
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
• n. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

rundle

• n. (obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
• n. (obsolete) A ball.
• n. (obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
• n. (engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

spoke

• n. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
• n. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
• n. A rung of a ladder.
• n. A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
• v. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
• v. simple past tense of speak.

stave

• n. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides,…
• n. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern…
• n. (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
• n. (music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed;…
• n. A staff or walking stick.
• n. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
• v. (transitive) To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in.
• v. (transitive) To push, as with a staff. With off.
• v. (transitive) To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off.
• v. (intransitive) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
• v. (intransitive) To walk or move rapidly.
• v. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
• v. To furnish with staves or rundles.
• v. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.