Meaning of Trundler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who trundles (something or someone).
2. A bowler (player throwing the ball).
3. A bowler who bowls slowly; a mediocre bowler.
4. A device that is trundled (pushed or pulled on wheels).
   New-Zealand
5. Shopping cart.
   New-Zealand
6. A foldable shopping bag with a light frame and wheels.
   New-Zealand
7. Golf pushcart.
   Australia, New-Zealand
8. A device made of a wooden stick with a wheel at the bottom, a crossbar handle at the top, and a hook in the middle, used to move pails and cans while gardening.
   obsolete
9. A wooden-wheeled cart used for gardening.
   obsolete
10. Pea (vegetable).
    obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I shall begin⟳ with the Married Ladies, as this order⟳ will be found to be far the most numerous, and includes all the married women in town or country above the degree of a chair-woman or the trundler of a wheel-barrow.”

“According to the venerable woodcuts which form⟳ the frontispieces to Primers of the dark ages, the paths of learning run⟳ through […] pleasant pastures agreeably diversified, and peopled by joyous hoop-trundlers and kite-flyers,”

“At length a friendly trundler of a Bath-chair […] came to my assistance,”

“Pushing the pram […] he would have⟳ struck you that much less as a character headed for rhetorical doom. […] The child grew daily more the spit⟳ of his trundler, with the jolliest impersonation of his father’s grin.”

“The canapés arrived, a whole trolley-load, and Jane gave its trundler a dollar […]”

“The high delivery of modern bowlers would horrify the famous trundlers of the good old days, when to deliver⟳ the ball from above the level of the shoulder was as heinous an offence as throwing is to-day […]”

“Sometimes he would bowl to one of his children, and although on the field (a small strip⟳ of garden) there were only two cricketers, he would turn⟳ it into an England v. Australia match⟳. The one batsman would stand⟳ for eleven men, and the one trundler would play⟳ the part of the regular and change⟳ bowlers […]”

“1978, Michael Anthony, The Making of Port-of-Spain, Port-of-Spain: Ministry of Sport, Culture, and Youth Affairs, Volume 2, Chapter 21, p. 123, It was the first time the crowd was seeing this lithe, gangling trundler, sending down orthodox spin⟳ from the left arm.”

“The next bowler was a trundler, and Luton, evidently inspired by Bognor’s cover⟳ drive⟳, hit him to all corners of the ground.”

“But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.”

“The supermarket, its turnstiles and trundlers, gave substance to hopes as desirable and distant as heaven.”

“A North Shore town centre is being ringed by an electronic fence in an attempt⟳ to stop⟳ thefts of supermarket trundlers.”

“[…] I couldn’t see⟳ where I was going and banged into a baggy old lady pulling a trundler full of shopping,”

“Taking the blue canvas shopping trundler from the alcove in the hallway […] Mattina walked to where she hoped the dairy might be,”

“[…] many golf trolleys, or trundlers as the Australians call⟳ them, are equipped with a small seat upon which to rest⟳ between shots.”

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