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 San Francisco-area plant that Valero plans to shut by April 2026 can process 145,000 barrels of oil a day.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • As if things weren’t complicated enough, they are forced to work together when a hurricane barrels toward the hospital, which then goes into lockdown.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The tent includes features such as a small TV room and visible air-conditioning pipes.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Now Currently, most regulations that address phosphorus runoff cover sources that can be easily identified, such as discharge pipes.
    Simi Thambi​, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The similarities suggest the mechanism may be a common trigger for tuns and other forms of hardy dormancy, a phenomenon that scientists call cryptobiosis.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Under these forms of stress, tardigrades curl up into a temporary, protective state of dormancy called a tun.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Rundlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rundlet. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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