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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small wheel or roller.
  2. n. The motion or noise of rolling.
  3. n. A trundle bed.
  4. n. A low-wheeled cart; a dolly.
  5. v. To push or propel on wheels or rollers: "I doubt if Emerson could trundle a wheelbarrow through the streets” ( Henry David Thoreau).
  6. v. To spin; twirl.
  7. v. To move along by or as if by rolling or spinning.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In cricket, to bowl.
  2. n. A wheel small in diameter, but broad and massive so as to be adapted to support a heavy weight, as the wheel of a caster.
  3. n. A small wheel or pinion having its teeth formed of cylinders or spindles: same as lantern-wheel.
  4. n. One of the spindles of such a wheel.
  5. n. A small carriage with low wheels; a truck.
  6. n. A trundle-bed.
  7. n. In heraldry, a quill of thread for embroiderers, usually represented as a spool or reel, and the thread as of gold.
  8. To roll, as something on low wheels or casters; move or bowl along, as a round body; hence, to move with a rolling gait.
  9. To revolve; twirl.
  10. To roll, or cause to roll, as a circular or spherical thing or as something on casters or low wheels: as, to trundle a hoop; to trundle a wheelbarrow; hence, to cause to move off with a rolling gait or pace.
  11. To cause to revolve; twirl: as, to trundle a mop.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
  2. n. A small wheel or roller.
  3. n. this sense?)(Australia, slang) The process of defecating (compare a liquid trundle).
  4. v. transitive To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
  5. v. transitive To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
  6. v. intransitive Move heavily (on wheels).
  7. v. transitive To move (physically).
  8. v. intransitive To move, often heavily or clumsily.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A round body; a little wheel.
  2. n. A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
  3. n. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
  4. n. A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
  5. n. One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
  6. v. To roll (a thing) on little wheels.
  7. v. To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
  8. v. To go or move on small wheels.
  9. v. To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
  2. n. small wheel or roller
  3. v. move heavily

Etymologies

  1. From a variation of trendle, trindle. More at trindle. (Wiktionary)
  2. Variant of dialectal trendle, wheel, from Middle English, from Old English trendel, circle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • brtom I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling ...
    Goldsmith, She Stoops, II Jan 10, 2007

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