trundle

IPA: trˈʌndʌɫ

noun

  • (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).
  • Ellipsis of trundle bed: A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed. [A low bed, designed to be rolled/stored away, usually on casters, under a higher bed, e.g. for temporary use by guests.]

verb

  • (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.
  • (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
  • (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
  • (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
  • (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
  • (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
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Examples of "trundle" in Sentences

  • The trundle wheel has over 4 million uses.
  • I might trundle back in between and work on .
  • Trundle is the name of several unrelated things.
  • Boo Trundle is a musician active in early to mid 1990's.
  • I live in a world where a trundle wheel measures a distance.
  • Essentially the scholars trundle hoops along the college lane in a race.
  • Berne continued to practice in Trundle right up until her death in 1900.
  • The theatre is believed by some to be haunted by the ghost of Miss Trundle.
  • Then we will trundle off to collect Emily and go to a club where most people will be wearing black.

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