trundle-bedn.

Forms: α. 1500s trendyll-, trindle-, tryndle-, trindell-; β. 1500s trundell-, 1500s– trundle-; cf. trendle n., trindle n., trundle n.

Etymology: trundle n. 1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrundle-bed.

= truckle-bed n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > truckle-bed

truckle-bed1459

tirl-bed1487

trundle-bed1542

wheel-bed1556

trundle bedstead1590

truckle1637

truckle bedstead1895

rollaway1958

α.

1542 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For makyng a trendyll bed iiij^d.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxij He slept quietly in the trindlebed.

1599 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 250 j. trindle bedd; one mattrice.

β. 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.1667 S. Pepys Diary 9 Oct. (1974) VIII. 470 My wife and I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle-bed.1727 P. Dudley Let. 13 Nov. in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) (1736) 39 68 I thought at first my Servants..were haling along a Trundle-bed.1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 48 Aunt Chloe..had been busy in pulling out a rude box of a trundle-bed.

Derivatives

† ˈtrundle ˈbedstead n. Obsolete

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