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A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
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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 l
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A position in a hierarchy.figuratively
- the lowest rung of the society
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A floor timber in a ship.dated
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One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.dated
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One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.dated
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One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.dated
rung
rʌŋ7 senses · 175 ms
Level C1GRE
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past participle of ring (only in senses related to a bell)form-ofparticiplepast
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simple past of ringdialectalform-ofpast
- With ecchoing Shouts the vaulted Chamber rung, / Belle Chuck was now the TOAST of ev'ry Tongue.
- Mr. Seibels, in his testimony, said I rung him up to see about labels. He is very much mistaken. I rung him up to see about bottles.
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Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.not-comparable
- […] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
- A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.