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trun⋅dle

[truhn-dl] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
2. to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel: The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon.
3. Archaic. to cause to rotate; twirl; spin.
–verb (used without object)
4. to roll along.
5. to move or run on a wheel or wheels.
6. to travel in a wheeled vehicle: He got into his car and trundled downtown.
7. to move or walk with a rolling gait.
–noun
8. a small wheel, roller, or the like.
9. a lantern wheel.
10. each of the bars of a lantern wheel.
11. a truck or carriage on low wheels.

Origin:
1555–65; var. of trindle


trundler, noun

lantern wheel

–noun
a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
Also called lantern pinion, trundle.


Origin:
1785–95
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trun·dle   (trŭn'dl)   
n.  
  1. A small wheel or roller.

  2. The motion or noise of rolling.

  3. A trundle bed.

  4. A low-wheeled cart; a dolly.

v.   trun·dled, trun·dling, trun·dles

v.   tr.
  1. To push or propel on wheels or rollers: "I doubt if Emerson could trundle a wheelbarrow through the streets" (Henry David Thoreau).

  2. To spin; twirl.

v.   intr.
To move along by or as if by rolling or spinning.

[Variant of dialectal trendle, wheel, from Middle English, from Old English trendel, circle.]
trun'dler n.
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