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The earliest roundel to be described was the one at Krpy (Kropáčova Vrutice), Bohemia, by Woldřich 1886, but it was only with systematic aerial survey in the 1980s and the 1990s that their ubiquity in the region became apparent. Three types have been distinguished:
A rondel dagger / ˈ r ɒ n d əl / or roundel dagger is a type of stiff-bladed dagger used in Europe in the late Middle Ages (from the 14th century onwards), used by a variety of people from merchants to knights. It was worn at the waist and could be used as a utility tool, or worn into battle or in a jousting tournament as a side arm.
The Tricolore cockade of the French Air Force was first used on military aircraft before the First World War [1]. A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol. The term is used in heraldry, but also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours.
Rondel, 1540. Two rondels covering the vulnerable underarm section of a suit of armour. A rondel (/ ˈ r ɒ n d əl /) is a circular piece of metal used for protection, as part of a harness of plate armour, or attached to a helmet, breastplate, couter, or on a gauntlet.
A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler travelling track to move the entire machine forward into the rock face.
Roundel in Fort de Salses (southern France), 15th century, drawing by Viollet-le-Duc Roundel of Fortezza Firmafede in Sarzana (north Italy), 15th century The roundel is an artillery fortification with a rounded or circular plan of a similar height to the adjacent defensive walls .
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Rondel (from Old French, the diminutive of roont "round", meaning "small circle") may refer to: . Rondel (dagger) or roundel, type of medieval dagger Rondel (armour), a circular piece of steel, as part of an armour harness, that normally protects a vulnerable point