Crossword clues for trundle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lantern \Lan"tern\ (l[a^]n"t[~e]rn), n. [F. lanterne, L. lanterna, laterna, from Gr. lampth`r light, torch. See Lamp.]
Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc.; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
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(Arch.)
An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
(Mach.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
(Steam Engine) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; -- called also lantern brass.
(Founding) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
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(Zo["o]l.) See Aristotle's lantern.
Note: Fig. 1 represents a hand lantern; fig. 2, an arm lantern; fig. 3, a breast lantern; -- so named from the positions in which they are carried.
Dark lantern, a lantern with a single opening, which may be closed so as to conceal the light; -- called also bull's-eye.
Lantern jaws, long, thin jaws; hence, a thin visage.
Lantern pinion, Lantern wheel (Mach.), a kind of pinion or wheel having cylindrical bars or trundles, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in two parallel disks or plates; -- so called as resembling a lantern in shape; -- called also wallower, or trundle.
Lantern shell (Zo["o]l.), any translucent, marine, bivalve shell of the genus Anatina, and allied genera.
Magic lantern, an optical instrument consisting of a case inclosing a light, and having suitable lenses in a lateral tube, for throwing upon a screen, in a darkened room or the like, greatly magnified pictures from slides placed in the focus of the outer lens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small wheel to support heavy weights," 1540s (implied in trundle bed "low bed on small wheels"), possibly from Middle English trendle "wheel, suspended hoop" (early 14c.), from Old English trendel "ring, disk" (see trend (v.)). Also probably in part from Old French trondeler "to roll down, fall down," which is of Germanic origin.
1590s (transitive), from trundle (n.). Intransitive use from 1620s. Related: Trundled; trundling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed. 2 A small wheel or roller. 3 A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion. 4 (context engineering English) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To wheel or roll, especially by pushing. 2 (context transitive English) To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels. 3 (context intransitive English) Move heavily (on wheels). 4 (context transitive English) To move (physically). 5 (context intransitive English) To move, often heavily or clumsily. 6 (context transitive English) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
WordNet
n. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed [syn: trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle]
small wheel or roller
v. move heavily; "the streetcar trundled down the avenue"
Wikipedia
The Trundle ( Old English: Tryndel, meaning "circle") is an Iron Age hill fort on Saint Roche's Hill about north of Chichester, Sussex, England. The Trundle is one of just four hill forts built in Sussex. The fort was built around a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, of which very little can be seen on the ground.
Usage examples of "trundle".
But for the smudge of oil left by his fingers, I could tell myself that none of it had happened, and get on with banging my typewriter keys, ordering mustard by the tub and jam by the barrel and currants by the sackload as the ordnance trucks trundled their deadly trains of long steel canisters across the concrete and the groundcrew hauled fuel bousers and the aircrew watched the maps being unrolled and the pointers pointed at the name of a town in Europe that would mean death for some of them.
Its blue-uniformed Screamer Pickup Squads patrolled the streets of all cities, gathering victims of the plague and trundling them off to Security Bureau isolation institutes.
There was the serpent, meek as before the days of sin, and the leopard slinking to get among the legs of men, and the lion came trundling along in utter flabbiness, raising not his head.
The vegetable-sellers, the organ-grinders, the woman practising her scales, the man playing the trombone, had all trundled away their barrows, pulled down their shutters, and closed the lids of their pianos.
Finally, she swung up into the back of the wagon as it trundled along at an even and unslacking pace.
Behind Bellis was the puttering of a motor as Angevine trundled toward them.
Bonesteel arranged his men in an arch to dig their heels in and hold, while wagons of wounded were trundled across the stone bridgeway, the vehicles scavenged from the abandoned redoubt after its former defenders had been disarmed and released.
One of the little trash robots trundled across the floor, gears grinding harshly, and bumped into a plant trough.
We sorted ourselves out in Interhuman while the roller trundled through tree-lined avenues.
Back on Padrugoi, Cass Cutler had disguised herself as yet another innocuous cleaner, complete with a service trundle cart full of janitorial supplies.
I walked through it behind the two men in overalls as they trundled inwards the make of gin which Orkney had refused to have in his box.
Rudy felt his face grow hot and wished he could truly disappear or return to his stinkbug shape and trundle off into the desert, never to be seen again.
Harmless, black, little, trundling along minding its own stinkbug business.
The royal party consisting of Corrina, Rhian, Kieva and Telyn, the women accompanied by Terra and another maid, set out in the opposite direction riding in a tight group at the forefront of three trundling wains.
I could make out a warthog and a line of anteaters trundling nose to tail.