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trundle(dictionary)

trangle (iou) and trundle(1) (iou)


trangle (iou)



trangle noun. E18.
[Obsolete French, var. of Old & mod. French tringle. Cf. TRINGLE.]
Heraldry. A narrow fess; a bar, a barrulet.

trundle(1) (iou)



trundle noun. See also TRUNNEL. M16.
[Parallel to TRENDLE noun, TRINDLE noun. Cf. TREND.]
A small wheel or roller; esp. a small sturdy wheel for supporting a heavy weight, as a castor. Now chiefly dial. M16.
b. In the drawstop action of an organ, a roller with two arms by the rotation of which a slider is drawn or replaced. L19.
A device consisting of two discs turning on an axle, and connected by a series of parallel rods cylindrically arranged, which engage with the teeth of a cog-wheel; a lantern-wheel. Also trundle-wheel. E17.
A low truck or carriage on small wheels. Now rare. M17.
An act of trundling or rolling (lit. & fig.); a push causing something to roll. Also (dial.), a departure (only in run one's trundle, take one's trundle, take oneself off, depart). L17.
O. Wister That station gone, our caboose took up again its easy trundle.
An embroiderer's quill of gold thread; Heraldry a charge representing such a quill. L18.
Comb.: trundle-bed a truckle-bed; trundle-head (a) (each of the discs of) a trundle (sense 2); (b) Nautical the lower drumhead of a double capstan; trundle-tail arch. (a) a dog with a curly tail; (b) derog. a worthless or contemptible person; trundle-wheel: see sense 2 above.