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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.





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"Trundle" Quotes from Famous Books



... The room behind me was my mother's—the "chamber" of the Southern home. A big four-poster, hung with dimity curtains, stood in the farther corner. The dimity valance, trimmed, like the curtains, with ball fringe, hid the trundle-bed that was pulled out at night for Mary 'Liza and me to sleep in. At the foot of the bed was my baby brother's cradle. As Mam' Chloe was walking with him in the garden, it should have been empty. Whereas, Mary 'Liza was putting her doll-baby to sleep in it. We said ...
— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland
... you must do,' said Master Lambikin,' you must make a little drumikin out of the skin of my little brother who died, and then I can sit inside and trundle along nicely, for I'm as tight ...
— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel
... ridge, and their bodies from head to foot, were conspicuously outlined against the sky. There was no mistaking the character of the object in the hands of the shorter individual—a barrow beyond the shadow of a doubt—trundle and trams, box, body, ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... trundle a hoop, you say; and jump over a stick. O, I forgot!—and march like the men in the red coats, when papa plays a pretty tune on ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft
... the sound of the lone sentry's tread, As he tramps from the rock to the fountain, And thinks of the two on the low trundle bed, Far away, in the ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various


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