truckle-bedn.

Etymology: truckle n. 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtruckle-bed.

A low bed running on truckles or castors, usually pushed beneath a high or ‘standing’ bed when not in use; a trundle-bed.

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

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1459 Stat. Magd. Coll. Oxf. xlv Sint duo lecti principales, et duo lecti rotales, Trookyll beddys vulgariter nuncupati.

1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 45 Item, an olde lytell coueryng for a lytell Trokell bed.

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. vi. 41 First that He lie vpon the Truckle-bed, Whiles his yong maister lieth ore his hed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. v. 6 There's his Chamber, his House, his Castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed [1602 trundle bed] .

1662 S. Pepys Diary 1 May (1970) III. 75 To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle-bed.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xvii. 441 Sancho slept that night in a truckle-bed, in the apartment of Don Quixote.

1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 302 Numbers [of peasants]..have not a bedstead, nor even what is called a truckle bed frame.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 8/1 Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw.

Derivatives

truckle bedstead n.

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