trundle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌndəl/
rhymes: -ʌndəl
Forms: form: trundles
Etymology: From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
Senses: examples: text: "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?"
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 115:
synonyms: trundle bed
truckle bed
truckle
glosses: Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
examples: text: […] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, chapter 3, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, London, page 21:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1676, Moses Cook, chapter 10, in The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forrest-Trees, London: Peter Parker, page 46:
glosses: A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
glosses: A small wheel or roller.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 276:
glosses: A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
examples: text: […] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.
ref: 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, Book 2, Chapter 1, section 5, p. 143:
text: He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.
ref: 2019, Robert Harris, chapter 3, in The Second Sleep, London: Hutchinson:
glosses: The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1651, Cressy Dymock, An Invention of Engines in Motion, London: Richard Woodnoth, page 5:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
examples: text: between as many Trundles, Or […]
ref: 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 14:
text: 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.
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 226:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
Derived terms: trundle bed
trundle cart
trundle shot
trundletail
trundle wheel
trundly