Trundle

Quick meaning: Trundle is a noun meaning Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).

Meaning

Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).

More Meanings

1. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
2. The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
3. (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
4. (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
5. (transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
6. (obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
7. (obsolete) A small wheel or roller.

Example Sentences

between as many Trundles, Or […]

He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.

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

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

Word Forms

• trundles
• trundling
• trundled

Synonyms for trundle

Depending on context, synonyms include truckle, roll.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include truckle, trunnel, trundlebed, lorry, troccle, tumbler.

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