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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Trundle" Quotes from Famous Books



... head at them.—Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,— Tom will make them weep and wail; For, with throwing thus my head, Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled. Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and fairs and market- towns. Poor ...
— The Tragedy of King Lear • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... A little girl said, As she sprang like a lark From her low trundle bed. It is morning, bright morning, Good morning, Papa! Oh give me one kiss, ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies • Anonymous

... rich little lady goes out to ride With footmen standing up outside, Yet wishes that, sometimes, after dark Her father would trundle her in the park;— That, sometimes, her mother would sing the things Little Miss Brag says her mother sings When through the attic window streams The moonlight full of golden dreams— ...
— Love-Songs of Childhood • Eugene Field

... greater diffusion of sporting propensities, and sporting feelings, may alter this for the better or no, I leave to sager and more politic pates than mine. And now I say, Harry, you surely do not intend to trundle us off to Tom Draw's to-night without a drink at starting? I see Timothy has got the drag up to the door, and the horses harnessed, and ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... if he couldn't borry the loan of a wheelbarru that would hold me up. He could trundle me along ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley


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