trundle

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɹʌndəl/ 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 (obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things. (obsolete) A small wheel or roller. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion. The sound made by an object being moved on wheels. (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars. (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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. To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed. 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; (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels). (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily. 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: (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily. (transitive) 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: 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) To roll or revolve; to roll along. Synonym: roll ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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