Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which turns or rolls, as a ball, a wheel, or the like; a roller; a trundle.
  • noun A brewers' cooler.
  • noun The turning-beam of a spindle.
  • To revolve upon an axis; turn round.
  • To roll along; trundle; bowl.
  • To roll.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.

Etymologies

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Anglo-Saxon.

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Examples

  • "Craquelin, a cracknell; made of the yolks of egges, water, and flower; and fashioned like a hollow trendle" (Cotgrave).

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • And whilst I was chawing 'em down I walked on and seed a clock with a face as big as a baking trendle -- "

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

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