trundle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
Inflected forms:
form: trundles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trundling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trundled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trundled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
When the bin men come down the back alley to trundle our wheelie bins to their truck, the dog becomes hysterical […]
gloss: To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
pos: verb
examples: […] 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;
[…] Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.
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.
gloss: To move heavily (on wheels).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
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.
Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him.
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.
gloss: To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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:
gloss: To move, often heavily or clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.
... the proprietor trundled away to fetch a second beer ...
[…] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,
she let the marmalade stay where it was, trundling in blobs down her plump cheeks
gloss: To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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:
If thou, my Deere, a winner be
At trundling of the Ball,
The wager thou shalt have, and me,
And my misfortunes all.
At gaming, perhaps, I may win;
With cards I may take the flats in,
Or trundle false dice, and they’re nick’d:
[…] 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.
gloss: To roll or revolve; to roll along.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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
Water is apt to move, being round like Balls,
No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.
Derived words: trundle along
trundlehead
trundle out
trundler
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: liikuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: liikauttaa (momentane)