Trundler

I shall begin with the Married Ladies, as this order will be found to be far the most numerous, and includes all the married women in town or country above the degree of a chair-woman or the trundler of a wheel-barrow.

According to the venerable woodcuts which form the frontispieces to Primers of the dark ages, the paths of learning run through […] pleasant pastures agreeably diversified, and peopled by joyous hoop-trundlers and kite-flyers,

At length a friendly trundler of a Bath-chair […] came to my assistance,

Pushing the pram […] he would have struck you that much less as a character headed for rhetorical doom. […] The child grew daily more the spit of his trundler, with the jolliest impersonation of his father’s grin.

The canapés arrived, a whole trolley-load, and Jane gave its trundler a dollar […]

The high delivery of modern bowlers would horrify the famous trundlers of the good old days, when to deliver the ball from above the level of the shoulder was as heinous an offence as throwing is to-day […]

Sometimes he would bowl to one of his children, and although on the field (a small strip of garden) there were only two cricketers, he would turn it into an England v. Australia match. The one batsman would stand for eleven men, and the one trundler would play the part of the regular and change bowlers […]

1978, Michael Anthony, The Making of Port-of-Spain, Port-of-Spain: Ministry of Sport, Culture, and Youth Affairs, Volume 2, Chapter 21, p. 123, It was the first time the crowd was seeing this lithe, gangling trundler, sending down orthodox spin from the left arm.

The next bowler was a trundler, and Luton, evidently inspired by Bognor’s cover drive, hit him to all corners of the ground.

But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.

The supermarket, its turnstiles and trundlers, gave substance to hopes as desirable and distant as heaven.

A North Shore town centre is being ringed by an electronic fence in an attempt to stop thefts of supermarket trundlers.

[…] I couldn’t see where I was going and banged into a baggy old lady pulling a trundler full of shopping,

Taking the blue canvas shopping trundler from the alcove in the hallway […] Mattina walked to where she hoped the dairy might be,

[…] many golf trolleys, or trundlers as the Australians call them, are equipped with a small seat upon which to rest between shots.