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Trundling

Trundle \Trun"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trundled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trundling.]

  1. To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

  2. To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.
    --R. A. Proctor.

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trundling

n. The motion of something that trundles. vb. (present participle of trundle English)

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Trundling

Trundling is the practice of rolling large rocks or boulders down hillsides. It is discouraged in many areas, for reasons of safety and environmental impact.

Its practice can be traced back to rock climbers in the 18th century in North America.

More specifically, "Boulder Trundling may be defined as the propulsion of fragments of the Earth's crust down mountain slopes of suitable inclination sooner than would occur from the interaction of natural forces."

Usage examples of "trundling".

Another variety of beetlelike creatures specialized in irrigation, trundling water, held in body sacs, which was carefully dribbled along neat rows.

The monitors showed him dodging cargo robots trundling forward across the open space just inside the hull of the docking ring.

Almost immediately it began to move, trundling them to a docking ring in the side of the great dome.

The boxy robot followed him out to the waiting crowd, trundling stoutly over the soggy ground.

She let him get out of sight and then, trundling the cart to the door he had used, she got out the special strip Commander Ottey had warily entrusted to her-it allowed entry to any room up to CIC-and got in with a quiet snick.

Workers were trundling along in their ordered phalanx down to yet another collection point.

The loading detail were trundling the first crates into the hold before Kenjo and Jiro could exit.

The others had both the small tractors trundling between their L/AV and the dome.

Dezhurova said flatly, never taking her eyes off the ground trundling slowly by.

Trumball and Possum Craig had reported a few minutes earlier that they were trundling along toward Xanthe with no problems.

Moyo stood with his nose to the glass for a full minute, entranced by the parade of doughnuts trundling past while electric motors hummed and clicked, and the turquoise gas flames played underneath the oil.

Things were trundling along the street, carried along by the relentless current.

Two men in overalls edged past us, pushing a heavy wooden handcart, trundling a motor or piece of machinery of some sort, partly covered by a tarpaulin.

It wasn't a good night for walking, and at Sixteenth Street I looked back over my shoulder, and a streetcar was trundling along toward me, the horse's head bent to the wind, the kerosene lanterns flickering at the front of the car.

Paving-stones were whizzing between Daniel and the Doctor like cannonballs, shovels slicing the air around their heads like cutlasses, barrows laden with gold and silver and bricks and mud trundling like munition-carts over temporary walk-ways of planks and stomped dirt.