trundle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to move or cause something to move slowly and heavily, often on wheels

   He trundled the loaded barrow away from the market square.

2. 2
   noun

   a small wheel or roller, or a low wheeled bed stored beneath a larger bed

   The child slept on a trundle that could be pushed under the main bed each morning.

Appears in

From Middle English trendlen or trondelen, related to Old English trendel, 'circle or disk.' The word first referred to rolling and small wheels; its characteristic sense of slow, heavy movement developed from the sound and motion of wheeled objects.

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