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trundle

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Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in 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"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A steady stream of shoppers trundled from store to store. ▪ Mothers trundled their children down the sidewalk in strollers. ▪ The porters were trundling barrows loaded with vegetables into the market. ▪ The soldiers trundled ...

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.