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Bible Encyclopedias
Rung
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a short round bar or stick used as a cross-bar or rail in a chair, and particularly as one of the steps or rounds of a ladder. In Scottish the word retains the original meaning of a staff or stick, especially a short thick cudgel. The O.E. hrung is used only of a bar or rail in a wagon; the word also occurs in O.Du. rouge, beam of a plough, Ger. Runge, pin, bolt.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Rung'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/rung.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Rung'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/rung.html. 1910.
