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  • noun Plural form of truckle.

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Examples

  • Also packed in the hold were some truckles of Cheddar cheese, Sheppy's Cider, Smiles Ales and Bath Oliver biscuits.

    Bristol's wine trade 2007

  • Also packed in the hold were some truckles of Cheddar cheese, Sheppy's Cider, Smiles Ales and Bath Oliver biscuits.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Her husband hates her mortally; but, although the brute is sometimes so very powerful in him that he will have his own way, he generally truckles to her dominion, and dreads, like a school-boy, the lash of her tongue.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • A _Truckle-bed_, is a small bed placed upon truckles, so that it may be readily moved about.

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • When a man truckles to him he is angry at his insincerity; when the other disputes his statements, or even offers other views, he finds himself confronted by one who has taken deep offense.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become a corporation lawyer, seeks to aid his clients by denouncing as enemies of property all those who seek to stop the abuses of the criminal rich; such a man performs an even worse service to the body politic than the Legislator or Executive who goes wrong.

    XII. The Big Stick and the Square Deal 1913

  • A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become a corporation lawyer, seeks to aid his clients by denouncing as enemies of property all those who seek to stop the abuses of the criminal rich; such a man performs an even worse service to the body politic than the Legislator or Executive who goes wrong.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • But he knows that if he truckles to the Curse of Versatility,

    The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Connoway fought many a losing fight that his small citizens might wriggle with delight on their truckles.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

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