A Quick and Simple Dictionary

rondel

1. Noun.  A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
2. Noun.  A poem in the above form.
3. Noun.  The verse form rondeau.
4. Noun.  A poem in the above rondeau form.
5. Noun.  A rondelle, (small) circular object.
6. Noun.  A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
7. Noun.  A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.