trundle
/ˈtɹʌndəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
noun
A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
noun
A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
Example Sentences
- ""When he comes back will be turned out." "But I always knew it was a one-year job." "Oh you don't mind being like a rented article from Hertz's, like a trundle bed or a baby's potty?""
- "[…] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,"
- "[…] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have to Load Timber with; and by that you may weigh it out of its place, and place the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take it off from the Trundle, and set it in its hole at your pleasure."
- "There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails."
- "[…] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow."
- "He could hear the trundle of cart wheels."
Etymology
From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: trondlin, trendlian