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Truckle

noun

A low bed to be slid under a higher bed. Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed.

verb

(past & past part. truckled; pres. part. truckling)

Yield to out of weakness.

Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering. Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady.

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... Byggvir! Thou couldst never dole out food to men, when, lying in thy truckle bed, thou wast not to be found, while men ...

— The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson • Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

... me to chuckle, sly as you, At gods that now I truckle to, To doubt the New Republic's bent, ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... ceiling. The window, set in a deep recess, the floor of which rose a foot above that of the room, was unglazed; and through the gloomy orifice the night wind blew in, laden even on that August evening with the dank mist of the river flats. A table, two stools, and a truckle bed without straw or covering made up the furniture; but Peridol, after glancing round, ordered one of the men to fetch a truss of straw and the other to bring up a pitcher of wine. While they were gone Tavannes and he stood silently waiting, until, ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... look, submitted to be led into the room. A man lay there, on a truckle-bed, and William Swidger stood at ...

— The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin • Charles Dickens

... novelists. The American politician of fiction is essentially a local personage, the boss of ward or village. Customarily he holds no office himself but instead sits in some dusty den and dispenses injustice with an even hand. Candidates fear his influence and either truckle to him or advance against him with the weapons of reform—failing, as a rule, to accomplish anything. Aldermen and legislators are his creatures. His web is out in all directions: he holds this man's mortgage, knows that man's guilty secret, discovers the other's weakness ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

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