What does "trundle" mean?
Trundle: A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
Additional senses
- 2.A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
- 3.(Mach.) (a) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern. (b) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
- 4.To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
- 5.To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.
- 6.To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
- 7.To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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