rondelle

While you ponder, please don’t ask why in French a puck is called “rondelle”; in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian “shaiba”; in Finnish “kiekko”; in Swedish “pucken”; in Norwegian, Danish and German “puck”; in Latvian “ripa”; in both Czech and Slovak “puk”; and in Hungarian “korong.”

Rondelle, ron-del′, n. anything round: one of the successive crusts formed on molten metal when cooling, a rosette.—n.

Sometimes a breastplate glitters bright, A morion speeds its flashes wroth, A rondelle from a hand of might Drops heavily upon the cloth.

Rondelle, n�gociant en vin, Porte St. Bernard, fauxbourg St. Germain, Paris, buys three hundred pieces of the first quality every year.

The illustrious wine shop of "Eve's Apple" was situated in the University, at the corner of the Rue de la Rondelle and the Rue de la B�tonnier.