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rung

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of RUNG

1
the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement <the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined>
2
Scottish  a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment <the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung>
Synonyms bastinado (or bastinade), bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane, cudgel, nightstick, rod, rung [Scottish], sap, shillelagh (also shillalah), staff, truncheon, waddy [Australian]
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