trundle

Plural: trundles

Noun

• a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
• small wheel or roller
• Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
• A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
• 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.
• A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
• A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).

Verb

Verb Forms: trundled, trundling, trundles

• To move or roll along slowly and heavily.
• move heavily
  • "the streetcar trundled down the avenue"
• 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.
• To move heavily (on wheels).
• To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
• To move, often heavily or clumsily.
• To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
• To roll or revolve; to roll along.

Examples

• Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
• The heavy ’trundle’ of his triple-word score across the board was satisfying to watch.
• to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
• to trundle a hoop or a ball

Synonyms

truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed, roll

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