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trundle
English
Etymology
From a variation of trendle, trindle. More at trindle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??nd?l/
- Rhymes: -?nd?l
Noun
trundle (plural trundles)
- A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
- Synonyms: trundle bed, truckle bed
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 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, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, London, Chapter 3, p. 21,[2]
- […] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,
- 1676, Moses Cook, The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forrest-Trees, London: Peter Parker, Chapter 10, p. 46,[3]
- […] 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.
- 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, London, Chapter 3, p. 21,[2]
- (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,[4]
- 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.
- 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 276,[4]
- 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,[5]
- […] 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, The Second Sleep, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 3,
- He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.
- 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, Book 2, Chapter 1, section 5, p. 143,[5]
- (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- 1651, Cressy Dymock, An Invention of Engines in Motion, London: Richard Woodnoth, p. 5,[6]
- 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.
- 1651, Cressy Dymock, An Invention of Engines in Motion, London: Richard Woodnoth, p. 5,[6]
- (heraldry) A spool of golden thread.
Derived terms
- trundle shot
- trundletail
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.
- 1995, Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing, New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1997, p. 55,[7]
- When the bin men come down the back alley to trundle our wheelie bins to their truck, the dog becomes hysterical […]
- 1995, Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing, New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1997, p. 55,[7]
- 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,[8]
- […] 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,[9]
- 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,[10]
- […] Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.
- 1997, J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, London: Secker & Warburg, Chapter 11, p. 91,[11]
- 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.
- 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,[8]
- (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
- 1662, John Birkenhead, The Assembly-Man, London: Richard Marriot, p. 14,[12]
- […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 25,
- Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him.
- 1662, John Birkenhead, The Assembly-Man, London: Richard Marriot, p. 14,[12]
- (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, Act II, p. 45,[13]
- 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,[14]
- Last night they trundled down the road
- That dead young soldier in his blood:
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, Act II, p. 45,[13]
- (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
- 1957, D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, part 1, p. 64,[15]
- […] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,
- 1957, D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, part 1, p. 64,[15]
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
- Synonym: roll
- 1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3,[16]
- 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, p. 280,[17]
- 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, p. 27,[18]
- 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, p. 6,[19]
- […] 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,[20]
- [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, obsolete) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- Synonym: roll
- 1542, Robert Burdet, A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women, London: Rycharde Banckes, “The Fawcon,”[21]
- 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, p. 28,[22]
- Water is apt to move, being round like Balls,
- No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.
Derived terms
- trundle out
- trundler
Translations
References
- "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
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trindle
English
Etymology
From Middle English trindel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-Germanic *trundilaz (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend +? -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend.
Noun
trindle (plural trindles)
- (dialectal) a wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
- A piece of wood, etc., laid between the cords and boards of a book to flatten before cutting.
Verb
trindle (third-person singular simple present trindles, present participle trindling, simple past and past participle trindled)
- (transitive, intransitive, dialectal) to roll, trundle.
Related terms
- trendle
- trundle
- trend
Anagrams
- tendril
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