Sekirov Dictionary

trundle

/ˈtɹʌndəl/

verb 7
noun 7
forms 3
phrases 1

verb7

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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.
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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, — 1773
•
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. — 1700
•
To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- 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 — 1761
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To move heavily (on wheels).
- […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill. — 1662
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To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
- He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another: — 1565
•
To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball In them was no fayth, but infydelytye — 1542

noun7

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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. — 2011
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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?" — 1976
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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. — 1943
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A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- The Cog-wheels in most Wind-Mills are (in the diameter) 8. foot or under […] the trundle is at the least two foot, which is 4. to one. — 1651
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(rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
- between as many Trundles, Or […] — 1724
(no longer used) A small wheel or roller.
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(no longer used) 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, — 1670

forms

trundled · trundling · trundles

Phrases with trundle

trundle along
To move slowly.

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