trundle
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.Examples: "[…] 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."obsolete
2. (obsolete) A small wheel or roller.obsolete
3. (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.Examples: "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."
4. (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).Examples: "between as many Trundles, Or […]"; "Gules, two broaches in saltire argent, between as many trundles or, on a chief of the second a lion passant gules - EMBROIDERERS' COMPANY at Bristol and Chester."; "Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or. Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or."rare
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.Examples: "Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market."; "to trundle a bed or a gun carriage"; "When the bin men come down the back alley to trundle our wheelie bins to their truck, the dog becomes hysterical […]"transitive
2. (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).Examples: "[…] 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."; "Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him."intransitive
3. (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.Examples: "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:"transitive
4. (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.Examples: "Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint."; "[…] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,"; "she let the marmalade stay where it was, trundling in blobs down her plump cheeks"intransitive
5. (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.Examples: "to trundle a hoop or a ball"; "1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3, He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:"; "If thou, my Deere, a winner be At trundling of the Ball, The wager thou shalt have, and me, And my misfortunes all."Synonyms: rolltransitive
6. (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.Examples: "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"; "Water is apt to move, being round like Balls, No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls."Synonyms: rollintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary