round bend (round bend)

Bent in a certain curve: specifically said of fly-hooks. round-crested (round'kres"ted), a. Having a round crest; fan-crested: specific in the phrase round-crested duck, the hooded merganser, Lo phodytes cucullatus. Catesby, 1731. See cut under merganser. roundel (roun'del), n. [Also roundle, rondel, rondle, rundle, in obsolete, technical, or dialectal uses; The Spaniardes, vniting themselues, gathered their whole Fleete close together into a roundell . Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 598. Come, put in his leg in the middle roundel [round hole of stocks]. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iv. 4. Scales and roundles to mount the pinnacles and highest pieces of divinity. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 12. Those roundels of gold fringe, drawn out with cypre . Scott , Kenilworth, xx. The roundels or "bulls'-eyes," so largely used in domestic glazing. Gla - making , p. 92. Specifically-( a ) In her . , a circular figure used as a bearing, and commonly blazoned, not roundel, but by a special name according to the tincture. Also roundle, roundlet . ( b ) In medieval armor: (1) A round shield made of osiers, wood, sinews, or ropes covered with leather, or plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures: sometimes made wholly of metal, and generally convex, but sometimes concave, and both with and without the umbo or bo . (2) A piece of metal of circular or nearly circular form. (a) A very Per pale gules and argent three roundels counterchanged. small plate sewed or riveted to cloth or leather as part of a coat of fence. (B) A larger plate, used to protect the body at the défaut de la cuira e, where that on the left side was fixed, that on the right side movable to allow of the couching of the lance, and at the knee-joint, usually one on each side, covering the articulation. Also called disk. (c) In fort., a bastion of a semicircular form, introduced by Albert Dürer. It was about 300 feet in diameter, and contained roomy casemates for troops. (d) In arch., a molding of semicircular profile. J. T. Clarke. (e) A fruit-trencher of circular form. 2t. A dance in which the dancers form a ring or circle. Also called round. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. 5245 roundeleer (roun-de-lēr'), n. [ In this path he must thus have preceded... all contemporary roundelcers . Scribner's Mag . , IV. 250.