trundle

Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

• "When he comes back will be turned out." "But I always knew it was a one-year job." "Oh you don't mind being like a rented article from Hertz's, like a trundle bed or a baby's potty?"

A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.obsolete

• […] you may […] place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey’d, and Replanted where you please,

A small wheel or roller.obsolete

A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

• There was something expert and even vicious in the flick of Paul’s arm and the hard momentary trundle of the [cricket] ball along the curving rails.

The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.

• […] an old man who could always be located from far away by the sound of a scythe or the trundle of a wheelbarrow.
• He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.

A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.

• The Cog-wheels in most Wind-Mills are (in the diameter) 8. foot or under […] the trundle is at the least two foot, which is 4. to one.

A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).rare

• between as many Trundles, Or […]
• Gules, two broaches in saltire argent, between as many trundles or, on a chief of the second a lion passant gules - EMBROIDERERS' COMPANY at Bristol and Chester.

To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.transitive

• Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
• to trundle a bed or a gun carriage

To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.

• 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58, The reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes,

To move heavily (on wheels).intransitive

• […] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.
• Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.

To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.transitive

• 1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27, Last night they trundled down the road That dead young soldier in his blood:

To move, often heavily or clumsily.intransitive

• Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.
• ... the proprietor trundled away to fetch a second beer ...

To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.transitive

• to trundle a hoop or a ball
• 1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3, He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:

To roll or revolve; to roll along.intransitive

• At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball In them was no fayth, but infydelytye
• Water is apt to move, being round like Balls, No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.