Meaning of Trundle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
3. A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
   obsolete
4. A small wheel or roller.
   obsolete
5. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
6. The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
7. A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
8. A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“"When he comes back will be turned out." "But I always knew it was a one-year job." "Oh you don't mind⟳ being like⟳ a rented article from Hertz's, like⟳ a trundle bed or a baby's potty?"”

“[…] you may […] place⟳ the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please⟳,”

“[…] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have⟳ a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have⟳ to Load⟳ Timber with; and by that you may weigh⟳ it out of its place⟳, and place⟳ the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place⟳ you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take⟳ it off from the Trundle, and set⟳ it in its hole at your pleasure.”

“There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails.”

“[…] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound⟳ of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.”

“He could hear⟳ the trundle of cart wheels.”

“The Cog-wheels in most Wind-Mills are (in the diameter) 8. foot or under […] the trundle is at the least two foot, which is 4. to one.”

“between as many Trundles, Or […]”

“Gules, two broaches in saltire argent, between as many trundles or, on a chief of the second a lion passant gules - EMBROIDERERS' COMPANY at Bristol and Chester.”

“Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or. Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or.”

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