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Trundle
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- 1 A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
- 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 small wheel or roller wordnet
- 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 a low bed to be slid under a higher bed wordnet
- 5 A small wheel or roller. obsolete
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- 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."
- 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."
- 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."
- 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 […]"
- 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 move heavily wordnet
- 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 To move heavily (on wheels). intransitive
"[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill."
- 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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- 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."
- 7 To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along. transitive
"to trundle a hoop or a ball"
- 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
From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
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