trundlen.
/ˈtrʌnd(ə)l/ I. Something that trundles or is trundled.
1.
a. A small wheel, roller, or revolving disk; esp. a small but massive wheel adapted for supporting a heavy weight, as the wheel of a castor.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position
cartwheelc1386
truckle1459
trundle1564
clog-wheel1575
trindle1594
coach-wheel1647
roulette1659
roller1763
horizontal wheel1794
castora1800
castor-wheel1805
artillery wheel1834
training wheel1848
trailing wheel1850
spider-wheel1868
front wheel1878
trailer1884
trendle1887
wire wheel1907
square wheels1924
jockey-wheel1952
1564 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 96 j tryndle bedd..; j trundell bedd.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. vi. 979 When I was in Cambridge, and lay in a Trundlebed vnder my Tutor.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 257 Wheel, Truckle, Trundle.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. vi. 68 Points, Halfs, and Quarters, which is on the two Trundles.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 16 They are submitted to the buff, which is a trundle of wood covered with thick soft leather, and made to revolve rapidly.
b. Organ-building. In the draw-stop action, A roller with two arms by the rotation of which a slider is drawn or replaced.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts conveying action
roller1632
roller board1632
sticker1756
tracker1843
pricker1852
trace1852
button1855
trundle1876
fan1880
square1880
trace-rod1880
1876–98 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 342 When the stop is pulled out, the arms aa draw the trace b from right to left, the end of the trundle c being attached to the trace is moved in a similar direction, whilst the other end of the trundle d moves in an opposite direction, and draws out the slider.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building x. 130 The connection of these horizontal draw-bars with the vertical levers will be effected by squares or bell-cranks of a form known as ‘trundles’.
2. A device consisting of two discs turning on an axle, and connected by a series of parallel staves cylindrically arranged, which engage with the teeth of a cog-wheel; a lantern-wheel. In early use, each of such discs (= trundle-head n. at Compounds (a): see Compounds). Also, each of the staves of this device.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lanterne à pagnons, a paire of trundles, or trundle heads; that which is turned about by the cog wheele of a Mill.
1660 ‘R. D'Acres’ Art Water-drawing 13 Great wooden wheels with Coggs in them, working Trundles with round staves in them.
1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. iii. 35 A winch six inches long, fixt on the axis of a trundle of 8 staves or rounds.
1801 J. L. de Bournon in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 186 They form a kind of indented cylinders, which have some resemblance to the trundle of a mill.
1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. 30 The cylindrical teeth or bars of the lantern are called trundles or spindles.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 125 He employed cast iron pinions, instead of the wooden trundles formerly used.
3. A low truck or carriage on small wheels. ? Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > low
trundle1664
truckle1689
truckle-car1748
gambo1836
wynn1863
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 22 [In replanting a tree] You may weigh up, and place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey'd, and Replanted where you please.
1766 Compl. Farmer Trundle, a sort of carriage with low wheels, for carrying heavy and cumbersome loads.
4. An embroiderer's quill of gold thread; in Heraldry, a charge representing this.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > metallic > gold or silver > quill of
trundlec1828
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of domestic items > [noun] > spool of golden thread
trundlec1828
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Trundles, quills of gold thread used by embroiderers, and borne by them in the Arms of their Company.
1894 Parker's Gloss. Heraldry 225 Embroiderers' Broaches, Trundles, and Quill... The Trundle represents a quill of gold thread, two of which are represented in the arms of the London company.
II. An act of trundling (literal or figurative).
5. An act of trundling or rolling; an impulse that causes something to roll.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > rolling along > causing to roll
trundlinga1637
trundle1893
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 95 They..gave the stone a trundle.
6. figurative. A going along or away; a course; departure: in to run or take one's trundle, to take one's course. dialect.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [phrase] > take one's course
to run or take one's trundle1675
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 388 I resolved he should run his Trundle.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 41 So take your trundle now, and good luck may ye see!
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 97 Ye're each at once as free To take your trundle as ye us'd to be.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations (in some cases perhaps directly from the verb).
trundle-head n. (a) each of the discs of a trundle (sense 2); (b) = sense 2; (c) Nautical (see quot. 1867).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1611Trundle heads [see sense 2].
1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder The trundle-head, thirteen inches semi-diameter, furnished with eighteen rounds, each a foot long, and two inches diameter: the ends of this trundle-head are two inches and a half thick.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trundle~head, the lower drum-head of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lower deck.
trundle-shot n. a shot consisting of a bar of iron with sharpened ends and a ball of lead attached near each end so as to cause it to turn in its flight.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > shot > of large guns
fricasseec1575
murdering shot1583
chain-shota1586
crossbar1589
cross-bar shot1591
case shot1599
langrel1627
trundle-shot1627
partridge1635
chain-bullet1636
pelican1639
case1642
spike-shota1661
double-head1678
double-headed shot1678
partridge-shot1683
grape1687
burrel-shot1706
double1707
angel-shot1730
grapeshot1747
star shot1753
bar-shot1756
langrage1769
canister1801
stang-ball1802
chain1804
canister-shot1809
tier-shot1828
pot-leg1852
six-pounder1855
shunt shot1864
sand-shot1867
mitraille1868
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 67 Trundle shot is..a bolt of iron sixteene or eighteene inches in length; at both ends sharpe pointed, and about a handfull from each end a round broad bowle of lead.
trundle-wheel n. = sense 2. See also trundle-bed n., trundle-tail n.; also trunnel-head, trunnel n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1800 J. Joyce Sci. Dialogues I. xvii. 163 A small trundle wheel made to work in the cogs.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 357/2 A part of an ancient trundle wheel was found a few days ago in Chalmerston Moss.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
trundlev.
I. Senses relating to rolling along.
1.
a. transitive. To cause to roll along upon a surface, as a ball, hoop, or other globular or circular object; to roll, bowl. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to roll along
wallowa1380
rolla1398
revolve?a1425
trollc1450
bowl1580
trundle1598
run1889
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Carrucolare, to trundle or rowle.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. vii. 196 One Elephant did wonders:..hee caught from them their targuets and bucklers perforce, flung them aloft into the aire, which as they fell, turned round, as if they had beene trundeled by art.
1630 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage in All Wks. i. 122/2 There did we trundle down health after health.
1698 J. Vanbrugh Æsop iii. i I could tell my mother's pedigree before I could speak plain; which, to show you..the strength of my memory, I'll trundle you down in an instant.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 183 Various exercises.., such as wrestling.., and tossing or trundling leaden balls.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 6 Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 259 George Hearn, the little post-boy, trundling his hoop at full speed.
1832 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Oct. 73 Sitting round a dirty board, with potatoes trundled out upon it, as the Irish do.
1901 R. Anderson Hist. Kilsyth vi. 50 [He] trundled an orange across the floor.
b. intransitive. To move along on a surface by revolving; to roll. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > roll along
trendlea1225
rolla1393
trindlec1400
runc1425
trundle1631
bowl1759
1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. i. 22 To be crop'd..Close to his head, to trundle on his pillow.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cornw. 201 His Round-Table..the tale whereof hath Trundled so smoothly along for many ages.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 253. ¶10 A Description in Homer's Odyssey..where Sisyphus is represented lifting his Stone up the Hill..it is heaved up by several Spondees..and at last trundles down in a continual Line of Dactyls.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge v. 261 Occasionally a hat or wig..came spinning and trundling past him.
c. Cricket. (transitive or absol.). To bowl. colloquial.The ball was originally trundled along the ground.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)]
bowl1739
pitch1772
trundle1849
to send down1871
to put down1924
1849 Punch 14 July 12/1 In those Days..they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand; but now they fling it over-handed from the Elbow.
1861 Baily's Monthly Mag. July 140 Such bowling as was trundled by Mr. Lyttelton and Mr. Salter in this innings is rarely witnessed in a University match.
1870 Baily's Monthly Mag. Dec. 213 Six out of the eleven have trundled the ball.
1882 [see sense 3a]. 1882 Daily Tel. 27 May Each trundler sent up five overs for one single run.
1898 G. Giffen With Bat & Ball iii. 47 The bowlers, too, trundled with that specially placed on-field in their mind's eye.
1959 Punch 3 June 747/2 Four of the team bowl leg-spinners.., and Gupte is reported to be the best of his type now trundling.
2.
a. transitive. To cause to rotate; to twirl, spin, whirl (something held in the hand); spec. to twirl (a mop) so as to free it from water. Cf. roll v.2 18.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl
thwerl1490
snoove1513
thirl1582
twirla1640
drill1681
trundlea1756
twizzle1788
a1756 [see trundled adj. at Derivatives].
1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions III. 277 While Footmen, women grown..Shall darn old hose, sweep rooms, and trundle mops.
1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. IV. 60 Instead of trundling the theodolite they yoked the oxen.
1883 H. J. Powell Princ. Glass-making 65 The English workman attains the same result by trundling the glass during reheating.
b. intransitive for passive.
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1782 [see trundling n. and adj. at Derivatives].
3.
a. intransitive. To move or run on a wheel or wheels. (Cf. roll v.2 36b.)
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > roll along > on castors or wheels
truckle1656
trundle1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 16/2 Such are termed Truckle beds, because they trundle under other beds.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 140 To see the wheelbarrow trundle.
1824 Blackwood's Mag. 4 95 The night coaches and mails were now trundling in.
1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xiv Numbers of fine carriages..trundle up.
b. transitive. To draw or push along on a wheel or wheels, as a wheelbarrow, vehicle, etc.
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1825 W. Scott Let. 7 June (1935) IX. 135 A light barouche..which with two horses will trundle along like a bowl.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. iii. 80 [He] was trundling a wheelbarrow full of sand.
1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 128 If nurse..was requested..to trundle the perambulator.
4.
a. transitive. To convey in a wheeled vehicle, to wheel.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by wheeled vehicle
roll?a1505
harlc1600
wheel1601
trundle1773
bowla1822
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 45 I'll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling.
1842 J. Wilson Christopher North (1857) I. 142 The children are all trundled away out of the cottage.
1847–8 H. Miller First Impr. Eng. ix. 156 As many bricks as an Irish labourer would trundle in a wheel-barrow.
1869 C. Dickens Let. 29 Jan. (2002) XII. 284 The Bath chairs trundling the Dowagers about the streets.
b. intransitive. To go in a wheeled vehicle (in quot. 1909, on a bicycle or tricycle).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle
rolla1522
wheel1721
bowl1759
hurl1795
trundle1841
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxii. 57 Mr. Tappertit trundled off with the chaise.
1909 Spectator 31 July 164/2 On my trusty ‘Rover’ I trundle down the brae.
5.
a. figurative (intransitive) To go, walk, or run easily or rapidly; to go away, ‘be off’; also, to walk unsteadily or with a rolling gait.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with easy or rolling gait
rolla1398
trundle1680
1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions iv. 27 Some may come [to their own Parish-church] out of custom, because they have used to trundle thither down the hill.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World i. i. 13 Bet. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. Pet. Enough, let 'em trundle.
a1754 H. Fielding Fathers (1778) iv. i. 71 The next morning down trundled her and I to Dirty Park.
1820 Countess Granville Let. 22 Aug. (1894) I. 160 She..trundled out of the House.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada x. 220 Sarah Jane rolled, I might almost say, trundled in.
b. transitive. To carry or send off, turn out, dismiss.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1794 J. Wolcot Wks. (1816) III. 315 Off were the couple trundled—man and maid.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 161 The women..always contrived to trundle me out of favour before the honey-moon was over.
II. [back-formation < trundle-bed n.] † 6. intransitive. To occupy a trundle-bed; = truckle v. i. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > in a specific place
trucklea1625
trundlec1626
doss1785
sleep1827
to plank it1829
sleep1912
c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1317 You & your Brother Manuell lay in the high Bed, & I trondling vnderneath.
Derivatives
trundled adj. /ˈtrʌnd(ə)ld/
/ˈtrʌnd(ə)ld/Π
a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 256 The house-maid then, with a trundled mop, dries the floor very neatly.
ˈtrundling n. and adj.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > rolling along
rollinga1522
trundlinga1637
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > rolling along > causing to roll
trundlinga1637
trundle1893
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun]
bowling1752
trundling1861
a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 544 in Wks. (1640) III Who's unskilfull at the Coyt, or Ball, Or trundling wheele.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 68 As a Coach may be so tickly set..as to give it self a trundling.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 139 Just like unto a trundling mop.
1803 R. Couper Tourifications II. xvi. 121 The extremity of this avenue was crossed by a fine little clear trundling rivulet.
1861 W. J. Prowse in Bell's Life in London 10 Nov. 6/3 But however good their trundling—pitch or pace, or break, or spin—Still the monarch of all bowlers, to my mind, was Alfred Mynn!
1862 Baily's Monthly Mag. Apr. 260 The Eleven then commenced batting to the trundling of Moore and Conway.
1882 Daily Tel. 19 May Making a slashing drive to the off for 4 from the same trundling.
1908 Chron. London Mission. Soc. Mar. 47/2 Trundling carts threw up clouds of choking dust.
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