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ˈtruckle-bed
[truckle n. 2.]
A low bed running on truckles or castors, usually pushed beneath a high or ‘standing’ bed when not in use; a trundle-bed. So truckle bedstead.
1459Stat. Magd. Coll. Oxf. xlv, Sint duo lecti principales, et duo lecti rotales, Trookyll beddys vulgariter nuncupati. 1531in Rec. St. Mary at Hill 45 Item, an olde lytell coueryng for a lytell Trokell bed. 1597Bp. Hall Sat. ii. vi. 5 First that He lie vpon the Truckle-bed, Whiles his yong maister lieth ore his hed. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. v. 6 There's his Chamber, his House, his Castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed. 1662Pepys Diary 1 May, To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 273 Sancho slept that night in a truckle-bed, in the apartment of Don Quixote. 1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 302 Numbers [of peasants]..have not a bedstead, nor even what is called a truckle bed frame. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii, Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw. 1895Rider Haggard Heart of World vii, A few chairs, a rough washing-stand, and two truckle bedsteads of American make. |