trundle
(noun) small wheel or roller
trundle
(verb) move heavily; “the streetcar trundled down the avenue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trundle (plural trundles)
A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
Synonyms: trundle bed, truckle bed
(obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
(obsolete) A small wheel or roller.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
(engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
(heraldry) A spool of golden thread.
trundle (third-person singular simple present trundles, present participle trundling, simple past and past participle trundled)
(transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
(intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
(transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
(intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
Synonym: roll
(intransitive, obsolete) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
Synonym: roll
• rundlet
Source: Wiktionary
Trun"dle, n. Etym: [AS. tryndel a little shield. See Trend, v. i.]
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.
Trun"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trundled; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. R. A. Proctor.
Trun"dle, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
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