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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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Word Origin & History

trundle 
1542 (implied in trundle bed "low bed on small wheels"), possibly from M.E. trendle "wheel, suspended hoop" (1324), from O.E. trendel "ring, disk" (see trend). Also probably in part from O.Fr. trondeler "to roll," which is of Gmc. origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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