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RUNG, 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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