Trundle

//ˈtɹʌndəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    ""When he comes back will be turned out." "But I always knew it was a one-year job." "Oh you don't mind being like a rented article from Hertz's, like a trundle bed or a baby's potty?""

  2. 2
    small wheel or roller wordnet
  3. 3
    A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things. obsolete

    "[…] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,"

  4. 4
    a low bed to be slid under a higher bed wordnet
  5. 5
    A small wheel or roller. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

    "There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails."

  2. 7
    The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.

    "[…] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow."

  3. 8
    A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.

    "The Cog-wheels in most Wind-Mills are (in the diameter) 8. foot or under […] the trundle is at the least two foot, which is 4. to one."

  4. 9
    A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers). rare

    "between as many Trundles, Or […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily. transitive

    "Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market."

  2. 2
    move heavily wordnet
  3. 3
    To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.

    "[…] they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth, with mighty retinues, and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them, when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them […]"

  4. 4
    To move heavily (on wheels). intransitive

    "[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill."

  5. 5
    To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily. transitive

    "I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,"

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  1. 6
    To move, often heavily or clumsily. intransitive

    "Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint."

  2. 7
    To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along. transitive

    "to trundle a hoop or a ball"

  3. 8
    To roll or revolve; to roll along. intransitive

    "At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball In them was no fayth, but infydelytye"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.

Etymology 2

From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.

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