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.
- Back in slavery time I recall the trundle bed that we children slept on.
- 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.
- [6.2] A trundle is a low bed, often on wheels, meant to be stored under a higher bed when not in use.
- When we pull into the Wardman Park Marriott in Woodley Park, I scramble off first and watch the passengers trundle down the steps.
- Once little steam engines used to trundle up and down the waterfront, depositing cargo for the freighters that lined our shores down to India Basin.
- 'Us kids' slept under this bed on a 'trundle' bed so that at night my mother could just reach down and look after any one of us if we were sick or anything.
- But he certainly recognizes the danger to the world if America abdicates its military and economic leadership role, à la the Obama doctrine, as we trundle down the path we helped the European's lay.
- Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.
- It is a small, harp-shaped instrument on legs, exceedingly coarse and clumsy in its construction, -- the case rough and unpolished, the legs like those of a kitchen table, with wooden castors such as were formerly used in the construction of cheap bedsteads of the "trundle" variety.
- Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it.
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