trundle
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trundle¹
- /ˈtɹʌndəl/
Rhymes with -ʌndəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
noun trundles
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Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
"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?"
Similar: trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle
- A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things. […] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,
- A small wheel or roller.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers). between as many Trundles, Or […]
verb trundles · trundling · trundled
- To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily. Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- 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 […]
- To move heavily (on wheels). […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
- To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily. I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,
- To move, often heavily or clumsily. Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.
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To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
to trundle a hoop or a ball
Similar: roll
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To roll or revolve; to roll along.
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
Similar: roll
Trundle²
proper noun
- A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
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verb to move, often heavily or clumsily
| Español | tambalearse |
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verb to cause to roll or revolve
| Deutsch | rollen lassen |
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