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.

Common collocations

• trundle bed Noun + noun

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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