Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bed the frame of which runs on wheels; especially, one which is low enough to be wheeled under a high or standing bed, remaining there during the day, and rolled out for use at night; a trundle-bed. The truckle-bed was formerly appropriated to a servant or subordinate, and also to children.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
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Examples
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Again, in these confined intolerable rooms, burrowed out like the holes of rats or the nests of insect-vermin, but fuller of intolerable smells, are crowds of sleepers, each on his foul truckle-bed coiled up beneath a rug.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The gallant would clothe his mistress in silks, would deck her out in soft Eastern fabrics, though he and she must lie on a truckle-bed.
The Magic Skin 2007
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But I made her comfortable on the pillow of my truckle-bed.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt — bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle-bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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She procured, for seven shillings a week, a sitting-room and bedroom, from whence she could see the gloomy prison walls, and also a truckle-bed for the young girl whom she was to bring with her as her maid.
The Three Clerks 2004
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Jenkin, — for in the said back closet were the two apprentices accommodated in one truckle-bed, — “I can sleep under the counter.”
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The governor, who did not enter this gloomy fortress without fear and trembling, found his pupil in a dismal apartment, void of all furniture but a stool and a truckle-bed.
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I found him wrapped in an old, greasy, ragged, great-coat, sitting in a wretched apartment, without either glass, paper, or boards in the windows; and there was no sort of furniture but a couple of broken chairs and a miserable truckle-bed.
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In lieu of tapestry, the apartment was hung with halfpenny ballads, a truckle-bed without curtains supplied the place of a canopy, and instead of a crown his majesty wore a woollen night-cap.
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She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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