truckle
IPA: trˈʌkʌɫ
noun
- A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
- A small wheel of cheese.
- Ellipsis of truckle bed.. [Synonym of trundle bed.]
verb
- To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
- (intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed.
- (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
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Examples of "truckle" in Sentences
- "I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused.
- “Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared.
- A Vacherin Mont d'Or with some really good crackers is hard not to like, as is a Stilton or a truckle of English cheddar.
- "Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister.
- They frankly welcomed the new-comer, and if they did not, as Ingred had bitterly prognosticated, exactly "truckle" to her, they certainly began to treat her as a favorite.
- He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.”
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