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
  • Conversely, a four-seam fastball and/or changeup could help Holmes avoid barrels against lefties.
    Will Sammon, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Producing this amount requires burning approximately 17,000 barrels of oil, which releases nearly 16 million pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Wrap them in tubular insulation to keep pipes from bursting.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Cold weather safety:How to prepare for winter 2024 — from freezing pipes to driving in snow and ice Does winter solstice change?
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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 17 Dec. 2024.

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