# trundle
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɹʌndəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌndəl

### Noun

trundle (plural trundles)
* Ellipsis of trundle bed: A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
    Synonyms: trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle
** 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 115:"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?"
* (obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
** 1670, John Evelyn, chapter 3, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees‎, London, page 21:[…] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,
** 1676, Moses Cook, chapter 10, in The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forrest-Trees‎, London: Peter Parker, page 46:[…] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have to Load Timber with; and by that you may weigh it out of its place, and place the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take it off from the Trundle, and set it in its hole at your pleasure.
* (obsolete) A small wheel or roller.
* A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
** 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child‎, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 276: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.
** 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear‎, London: Heinemann, Book 2, Chapter 1, section 5, p. 143:[…] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.
** 2019, Robert Harris, chapter 3, in The Second Sleep, London: Hutchinson:He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.
* (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
** 1651, Cressy Dymock, An Invention of Engines in Motion‎, London: Richard Woodnoth, page 5: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.
* (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
** 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 14:between as many Trundles, Or […]
** 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 226:Gules, two broaches in saltire argent, between as many trundles or, on a chief of the second a lion passant gules - EMBROIDERERS' COMPANY at Bristol and Chester.
** 2023 May 1, W. Sedgwick Saunders, A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Coins, Gems, Autographs, Antiquities, and Works of Art, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN:Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or. Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or.

#### Derived terms

* trundle bed
* trundle cart
* trundle shot
* trundletail
* trundle wheel
* trundly

#### Translations
### Verb

trundle (third-person singular simple present trundles, present participle trundling, simple past and past participle trundled)
* (transitive) 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 trundle a bed or a gun carriage
** 1995, Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing‎, New York: HarperPaperbacks, published 1997, page 55:When the bin men come down the back alley to trundle our wheelie bins to their truck, the dog becomes hysterical […]
* To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
** 1637, John Bastwick, The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the Exceptions Made against His Letany […] which is annexed to the Letany it selfe‎, Leiden, Letany, Part 2:[…] 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 […]
** 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58,
    The reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes, or, is trundled from the next market town in a wheelbarrow;
** 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 39:[…] Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.
** 1997, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 11, in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life‎, London: Secker & Warburg, page 91:The kraal walls are two feet thick and higher than his head; they are made of flat blue-grey stones, every one of them trundled here by donkey-cart.
* (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
** 1662, John Birkenhead, The Assembly-Man‎, London: Richard Marriot, page 14:[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
** 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
** 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 25:Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him.
** 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:My trip ends at Wrexham General. While the '150' trundles the final half-mile down the single line to Wrexham Central, I nip over the footbridge to explore the main part of the station.
* (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
** 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer‎, London: F. Newbery, act II, page 45:I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,
** 1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27,
    Last night they trundled down the road
    That dead young soldier in his blood:
* (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
** 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ix, page 13:Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.
** 1957, D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places‎, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, part 1, p. 64:[…] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,
** 1977, Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life:she let the marmalade stay where it was, trundling in blobs down her plump cheeks
* (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
    Synonym: roll
    to trundle a hoop or a ball
** 1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3,
    He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:
** 1648, Robert Herrick, “Stool-ball”, in Hesperides‎, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, page 280:If thou, my Deere, a winner be At trundling of the Ball, The wager thou shalt have, and me, And my misfortunes all.
** 1784, John O’Keeffe, The Poor Soldier‎, Dublin, act II, scene 5, page 27:At gaming, perhaps, I may win; With cards I may take the flats in, Or trundle false dice, and they’re nick’d:
** 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude‎, London: J. Johnson, page 6:[…] all our dainty terms for fratricide, Terms which we trundle smoothly o’er our tongues Like mere abstractions,
** 1818, John Keats, letter to Fanny Keats dated 4 July, 1818, in Sidney Colvin (ed.), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, London: Macmillan, 1891, p. 122,
    [I am] so fatigued that when I am asleep you might sew my nose to my great toe and trundle me round the town like a Hoop without waking me.
* (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
    Synonym: roll
** 1542, Robert Burdet, “The Fawcon”, in A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women‎, London: Rycharde Banckes: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
** 1653, Margaret Cavendish, “The Agilenesse of Water”, in Poems, and Fancies‎, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, page 28:Water is apt to move, being round like Balls, No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.

#### Derived terms

* trundle along
* trundle out
* trundler

#### References

* ↑ Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: W. Strahan, 1755: “TRUNDLE. […] Any round rolling thing.”
* "trundle." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. 15 Jun. 2007. Dictionary.com.
* "trundle." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. 15 Jun. 2007. Dictionary.com.

### Anagrams

* rundlet