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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



... Wareville. Paul shut his eyes and looked dreamily into the fire. He could see the people at the settlement getting ready for the great festival, preparing little gifts, and the children crawling reluctantly into their homemade trundle, or box beds. He felt at that moment a deep kindness toward ...
— The Forest Runners - A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler
... liveliest cackle. "Tom, he 'lowed ter me ez he war tucked up in the trundle-bed, fast asleep, that night when his dad got home from old Mis' Price's house, whar he had been ter hear her las' words. Tom, he 'lowed he war dreamin' ez his gran'dad hed gin him a calf—Tom say the calf war spotted red an' white—an' jes' ez he war a-leadin' it home with him, ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" So toddling off to his trundle-bed He dreampt of the pretty toys. And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue,— Oh, the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy ...
— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various
... happy, 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 ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies • Anonymous
... his voice sinks deeper into my remembrance. He is my father—that I feel ringing through the dim halls of my consciousness. Harriet clings to his hand in perfect knowledge and confidence. We eat our bread and milk, the trundle-bed is pulled out, we children clamber in, and I go to sleep to the music of his resonant voice recounting the story of the battles he had seen, and the ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland


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