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Trundle   /trˈəndəl/   Listen
verb
Trundle  v. t.  (past & past part. trundled; pres. part. trundling)  
1.
To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
2.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.



Trundle  v. i.  
1.
To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
2.
To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.



noun
Trundle  n.  
1.
A round body; a little wheel.
2.
A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
3.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
4.
(Mach.)
(a)
A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
(b)
One of the bars of a lantern wheel.






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"Trundle" Quotes from Famous Books



... pitchfork. send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash. put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel &c 276; trundle &c (set in rotation) 312; expel &c 297. carry one off one's legs; put to flight. Adj. propelled &c v.; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... knew baby was asleep in the trundle-bed, and there wa'n't no fire in the house; but how did I know the house wa'n't blowed down? I thought that as quick as a flash of lightnin'; it kinder struck me; I couldn't even see, so as to be certain! I wasn't naterally fond of children, but somehow one's own is different, and baby was ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various

... therefore, who saw no joke in sitting round a table in the dark, went off to bed as the darkness began. Everybody did so. Old Numa Pompilius himself, was obliged to trundle off in the dusk. Tarquinius might be a very superb fellow; but we doubt whether he ever saw a farthing rushlight. And, though it may be thought that plots and conspiracies would flourish in such a city ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... himself. He tolerates me, I do secretly believe, because of you. He longs to meet you,—he knew you well through my father,—and we often talk you over. Be sure at every opportunity I tear off your halo and trundle it about. Trust ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... on a trundle bed by my mother's," Page wrote years afterward, describing these early scenes, "for her room was the only room left for the family, and we had all lived there since the day before. The dining room and the kitchen were now superfluous, because there was nothing more to cook or to eat. ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick


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