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▪ I. trindle, n.|ˈtrɪnd(ə)l|
Forms: 4–6 trindel, (5 -ylle, 6 -al, -ell, -ill(e; 4 tryndall, 5 -yl, -el, 5–6 -elle, -yll, -ylle, 6 -ell, -ull, tryndle, trynle, tryneyll, 7–9 Sc. trinle, 9 Sc. trinnel, trinnle), 6– trindle; also 8–9 Sc. trintle.
[Early ME. trindel, a parallel form to trendle, corresp. to MHG. trindel, from *trendilo-; see also the various trind- forms under trend v., and cf. trundle v.]
1. A wheel; esp. a ‘trundle’ or lantern-wheel in a mill; also, the wheel of a wheelbarrow: = trendle n. 2, trundle n. 1, 2. Obs. exc. dial.
c1343Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 543 In j pari de Trindelis. [1391Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 106 In tryndallo pro j porta infra cymiterium, 3d.] 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 696/13 Hec troclia, a trindylle. 1455–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 241 Pro j pare de le tryndylles empto pro molendino de Milburn. 1531Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII, V. 180 For working of the tryndyll of the myll at Hampnes Castell. 1587Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 41 For a pere of myllne trynles, ijs xd. 1594Ibid. 89 For makinge of a whelebarrowe trindle iiijd. 1786Burns The Inventory 33 Ae auld wheelbarrow..I made a poker o' the spin'le, An' my auld mother brunt the trin'le. 1855E. Waugh Sk. Lanc. Life (1857) 65 He..order't th' wheelbarrow wi' spon-new trindle t' be fotcht.
†b. A spindle: cf. trendle n. 5. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 393/2 A Tryndelle of A webster, insubulus (A. infusillus), troclea. Ibid. 412/2 A Weffer tryndylle, insubulus, troclea.
†2. A roll or coil (?) of wax taper, used for light in mediæval churches. (Its nature is disputed: see quots. 1796 and 1852.) Obs. exc. Hist.
(App. something different from trendle n. 3.)
1537in Reliquary Jan. (1893) 40 Itm' ij new tryneylls of waxe lytylle wasted. 1547Edw. VI. Injunct. §28 Also, that they shall take awaie, vtterly extincte, and destroye, all shrines,..candelstickes, tryndilles or rolles of waxe, pictures, paintynges [etc.]. 1559Queen Elizabeth Injunct. §23 Trindals, and Rolles of wax. [1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 42 Trindilles or trindals..may mean cakes of wax, which being round are therefore called trindles, or trundles. 1852Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ix. 237 In some..instances it is likely that these long strings of wax taper were..coiled up..into folds, so as to form what we are to understand by trindles or rolls of wax.]
†3. Something of rounded form, as a pellet of sheep's or goat's dung. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 203 The same Physitian prescribeth Goats trindles to be drunk in Wine against the Jaundise. 1660Howell Parly Beasts 123 The very trindles drunck in wine are good against the Jaundise.
b. See quot. 1825. dial.
16..in Daily News 27 Dec. (1911) 3/2 To make a Haggisse Puddinge. Take a Calfe Trindle, a quart of Creame, halfe a dozin Egges, a Manshett, a pound of Currans, with Cinamon, Ginger, Nuttmegge, Mace, and Cloves, and Suger, and a little Rose water. 1825Jamieson, Trinnel, calf's guts.
4. Bookbinding. Each of several flat pieces of thin wood or metal, shaped something like toy horse-shoe magnets, by which (in pairs) the stitched, glued, and rounded back of a book is held flat while the front edge is ploughed.
On the withdrawal of the trindles, the back resumes its convex form and the front edge becomes concave.
1818Art Bk.-binding 16 Put the trindles between the back of the book and paste-boards. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 239/2 A piece of thin millboard or ‘trindle’ is put between the hind board and the book.
▪ II. ˈtrindle, v. Obs. or dial.
Forms: see prec.
[A parallel form to trendle. Form history not clear. The OE. tryndyl- seems to imply derivation from the grade trund-: see trend v.]
†1. trans. To make round, to round. (only OE.)
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 152/5 Circumtectum, tryndyled reaf.
2. trans. To cause (a wheel, etc.) to revolve; to cause (a ball, hoop, cask, etc.) to roll along a surface; to trundle.
1595Barnfield Cynthia x, A golden Ball was trindled from aboue. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 272 He hath other things to do than to play with me and to trindle an apple with me. 1808–18in Jamieson, Trintle, trinle, v. a.
3. intr. To revolve or turn round (as a wheel, spindle, etc.); to roll (as a ball, hoop, cylinder, etc.) along a surface.
c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 3259 Sir Ywain..strake his nek-bane right in sonder,..His hevid trindeld on the sand. 1530Palsgr. 762/2, I tryndell, as a boule or a stone dothe, je roulle. 1815Scott Guy M. xlviii, If we were ance out o' this trindling kist o' a thing. 1894Black Highl. Cousins I. 35 Your ball strikes the face of the hill and..comes quietly trintle, trintle, trintling down the slope. |