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trundle
[ truhn-dl ]
verb (used with object)
trundled, trundling.
- to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
- to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel:
The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon.
- Archaic. to cause to rotate; twirl; spin.
verb (used without object)
trundled, trundling.
- to roll along.
- to move or run on a wheel or wheels.
- to travel in a wheeled vehicle:
He got into his car and trundled downtown.
- to move or walk with a rolling gait.
noun
- a small wheel, roller, or the like.
- a lantern wheel.
- each of the bars of a lantern wheel.
- a truck or carriage on low wheels.
trundle
/ ˈٰʌԻə /
verb
- to move heavily on or as if on wheels
the bus trundled by
- archaic.tr to rotate or spin
noun
- the act or an instance of trundling
- a small wheel or roller
- the pinion of a lantern
- any of the bars in a lantern pinion
- a small truck with low wheels
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ٰܲd noun
- ܲ·ٰܲd adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of trundle1
Old English tryndel ; related to Middle High German trendel disc
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Trucks and cars trundle past, weighed down with people's belongings.
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Kids and Koala Crisp Then the kids start to get up and trundle in — the younger ones, who are 12, 10 and 8.
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I trundled home from the hospital in a daze, with my daughter in her pram.
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Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.
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Thousands of foreign forces in air-conditioned vehicles trundled through the Sahelian steppe, trying to take out terrorist leaders.
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