The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truckle-bed \Truc"kle-bed`\, n.
A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a
trundle-bed. ``His standing bed and truckle-bed.''
--Shak.
Usage examples of "truckle-bed".
There was an ancient truckle-bed which was stripped bare and a thin straw palliasse on the floor.
In every little cooped-up, dingy cavern of a hut, faint with the odor of burning Josh-lights and with nothing to see the gloom by save the sickly, guttering tallow candle, were two or three yellow, long-tailed vagabonds, coiled up on a sort of short truckle-bed, smoking opium, motionless and with their lustreless eyes turned inward from excess of satisfaction--or rather the recent smoker looks thus, immediately after having passed the pipe to his neighbor--for opium-smoking is a comfortless operation, and requires constant attention.