Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small wheel or roller.
- noun The motion or noise of rolling.
- noun A trundle bed.
- noun A low-wheeled cart; a dolly.
- intransitive verb To push or propel on one or more wheels or rollers.
- intransitive verb To carry, convey, or cause to move, especially in a vehicle.
- intransitive verb To move along by rolling or spinning.
- intransitive verb To move slowly, noisily, or clumsily.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In cricket, to bowl.
- noun A wheel small in diameter, but broad and massive so as to be adapted to support a heavy weight, as the wheel of a caster.
- noun A small wheel or pinion having its teeth formed of cylinders or spindles: same as
lantern-wheel . - noun One of the spindles of such a wheel.
- noun A small carriage with low wheels; a truck.
- noun A trundle-bed.
- noun In heraldry, a quill of thread for embroiderers, usually represented as a spool or reel, and the thread as of gold.
- To roll, as something on low wheels or casters; move or bowl along, as a round body; hence, to move with a rolling gait.
- To revolve; twirl.
- To roll, or cause to roll, as a circular or spherical thing or as something on casters or low wheels: as, to
trundle a hoop; to trundle a wheelbarrow; hence, to cause to move off with a rolling gait or pace. - To cause to revolve; twirl: as, to
trundle a mop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A round body; a little wheel.
- noun A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
- noun A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
- noun A lantern wheel. See under
Lantern . - noun One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
- transitive verb To roll (a thing) on little wheels.
- transitive verb To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
- intransitive verb To go or move on small wheels.
- intransitive verb To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
- noun A small wheel or
roller . - noun this sense?)(
Australia ,slang ) The process of defecating (compare aliquid trundle). - verb transitive To
wheel orroll , especially bypushing . - verb transitive To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
- verb intransitive Move heavily (on wheels).
- verb transitive To move (physically).
- verb intransitive To move, often heavily or clumsily.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- noun small wheel or roller
- verb move heavily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.
Archive 2007-10-01 esther 2007
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Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.
that it is fatal to truckle to what one conceives to be popular taste. esther 2007
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Back in slavery time I recall the trundle bed that we children slept on.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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[6.2] A trundle is a low bed, often on wheels, meant to be stored under a higher bed when not in use.
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It is a small, harp-shaped instrument on legs, exceedingly coarse and clumsy in its construction, -- the case rough and unpolished, the legs like those of a kitchen table, with wooden castors such as were formerly used in the construction of cheap bedsteads of the "trundle" variety.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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'Us kids' slept under this bed on a 'trundle' bed so that at night my mother could just reach down and look after any one of us if we were sick or anything.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration
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When we pull into the Wardman Park Marriott in Woodley Park, I scramble off first and watch the passengers trundle down the steps.
Tea Party road trip: What the movement wants -- and why Bill Donahue 2010
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But he certainly recognizes the danger to the world if America abdicates its military and economic leadership role, à la the Obama doctrine, as we trundle down the path we helped the European's lay.
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Once little steam engines used to trundle up and down the waterfront, depositing cargo for the freighters that lined our shores down to India Basin.
Christopher Caen: Friday Footsteps: San Francisco Nostalgia Christopher Caen 2012
brtom commented on the word trundle
I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling ...
Goldsmith, She Stoops, II
January 10, 2007