trundle

UK /ˈtɹʌndəl/ US /ˈtɹʌndəl/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).

"When he comes back will be turned out." "But I always knew it was a one-year job." "Oh you don't mind being like a rented article from Hertz's, like a trundle bed or a baby's potty?"

2

A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.

[…] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,

[…] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have to Load Timber with; and by that you may weigh it out of its place, and place the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take it off from the Trundle, and set it in its hole at your pleasure.

3

A small wheel or roller.

4

A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails.

5

The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.

[…] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.

He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.

verb

1

To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.

Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.

to trundle a bed or a gun carriage

2

To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.

[…] they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth, with mighty retinues, and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them, when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them […]

1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58, The reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes, or, is trundled from the next market town in a wheelbarrow;

3

To move heavily (on wheels).

[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.

Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.

4

To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.

I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,

1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27, Last night they trundled down the road That dead young soldier in his blood:

5

To move, often heavily or clumsily.

Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.

... the proprietor trundled away to fetch a second beer ...

name

1

A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

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