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▪ I. truckle, n.|ˈtrʌk(ə)l|
Forms: 5 trokel, -ill, trookyll, trokle, pl. trokleys, 5–6 trokell, trocle, 6 troukle, -cle, trowkle, truckill, 7 truckel, trukle, trickle (also 9 dial.), 6– truckle.
[= AF. trocle, trokle, ad. L. trochlea = Gr. τροχιλία, τροχιλέα, etc., sheaf of a pulley: see trochlea.]
1. A small wheel with a groove in its circumference round which a cord passes; a pulley, a sheave.
1417in For. Acc. 8 Hen. V, D/2, j apparaille ix pullifs vj Trokles. Ibid. G/1 Eiusdem Nauis j apparatu ix Pullifs vj Trocles j securi. 14..MS. Digby 233 lf. 221/2 Þanne drawe þei & wyndeþ vp þe lasse toure with ropes & trokelus. 1545Elyot, Artemon, a troukle wherby ropes dooe runne. It maye also be taken for any instrument that hath troucles. 1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 8 With what Cranes, winding beames, Trocles, round pullies, Capres. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvi. 132 A Truckle for a Pully. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xx, A truckle for a pully. 1904Anstruther Thomson Remin. II. v. 135 They hoisted him and then let the truckle go with a run.
2. A small roller or wheel placed under or attached to a heavy object to facilitate moving it; a castor on a piece of furniture. Now dial.
1459[see truckle-bed]. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 244 b, This house may be remoued with trocles, & slyddis. 1617Hieron Wks. (1619–20) II. 351 Thou which canst not goe alone, maist be allowed to goe by truckles, or as thou art led by anothers hand. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion ix. 14 He showed them a great round chair very ancient, which had truckles under it to move withall. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Truckle, a little running Wheel. 1837Penny Mag. VI. 338 [A wooden horse] placed on a stand made moveable by truckles. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Truckle, ..2. a caster. ‘The very chairs 'ad a-got truckles to 'em’.
3. Short for truckle-bed.
1637Heywood Royall King iii. vii, A close roome, with a standing bed in 't, and a truckle too. 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 40 With knocking loud and bauling, He rous'd the Squire, in Truckle lolling. 1707Prior Sat. Poets 76 No Friend..but trusting Landlady, Who stows you on hard Truckle, Garret high. 1826Scott Woodst. xxi, His..attendant..deposited himself on his truckle. 1851W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 143 (E.D.D.) A wee truckle filled wi' fusionless strae.
4. A low-wheeled car; a truck. Chiefly in Irish use.
1689Irish Procl. 14 Sept., [Not] to..meddle with any of their horses, carts, truckels, or other their tacklings. 1751R. Paltock P. Wilkins (1884) I. 118, I no sooner unloaded but down went I again with my cart, or truckle rather, to the lake, and brought from thence on it my other chest. 1807P. Gass Jrnl. 240 Our waggons and truckles to transport the baggage and canoes. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Truckle, a small car, in common use before the introduction of the present farm-carts.
5. A small barrel-shaped cheese. dial.
a1813[see truckle-cheese in 6]. 1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 705 Besides these cheeses, some small ones are made, called ‘truckles’. 1891Catal. Oxf. Agric. Show 45 The best lot of Cheese not less than ½ cwt. (Truckles excepted). 1901Scotsman 9 Oct. 10/2 For cheddar truckles.
6. attrib. and Comb., as truckle-car, truckle-cheese (= 5), truckle-wheel. See also truckle-bed.
1748Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 491 *Truckle-car (what they [Irish] make use of for carrying goods) drawn by one horse and the wheels not three foot high.
a1813in Ellis Brand's Pop. Antiq. I. 55 A piece of *Truckle Cheese. 1891Catal. Oxf. Agric. Show 45 The best lot of 3 Loaf or other Truckle Cheese (not Stilton).
1533Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, VI. 503, 4 carpenters..making of *truckill whelis. 1706Phil. Trans. XXV. 2253 Near the one End..let a little Truckle-wheel..be fastened to the Rular by a Pin.
▪ II. ˈtruckle, v.
Also 8 Sc. trockle.
[f. truckle in truckle-bed.]
†1. intr. To sleep in a truckle-bed. Const. under (beneath) the person occupying the high bed, or the high bed itself. Also fig. Obs.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb i. vi, I'll truckle here, boy; give me another pillow. 1655R. Boreman Mirr. Mercy & Judgm. 21 Who had the custody of him at the house of master Foster, Keeper of the Prison, and truckled under him every night. 1657Howell Londinop. 399 [St. Paul's] having a large Church..truckling, as one may say, under her Chancel. 1658E. Phillips Gard. Tulips 51 The Knight keeps to his Lady in the high bed, and never truckles. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 21 Such a kind of somewhatkin, as truckles beneath the very tinyness of an half nothing.
2. fig.
†a. To take a subordinate or inferior position; to be subservient, to submit, to give precedence. Const. under, to. Obs.
1667Pepys Diary 2 Sept., He will never..truckle under any body or any faction, but do just as his own reason and judgment directs. 1671Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 395 We truckle to France in all things, to the prejudice of our honour. 1681Evelyn Let. to Pepys 5 Dec., in Mem. (1819) II. 216 Unlesse it be, that we designe to truckle under France. a1704T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 92 Publick good is made to truckle to private gain. 1738tr. Guazzo's Art Conversation 66 Where Sense imperious bears the Sway, Reason must truckle and obey.
b. To submit from an unworthy motive; to yield meanly or obsequiously; to act with servility. Const. down, to a person, for an object.
1680C. Nesse Church-Hist. 285 His sordid spirit truckles and crouches. a1715Earl Halifax Man of Hon. Poems (1779) 226 Those that meanly truckle to your power. 1789Parr Tracts Warburton, etc. 184, He was..too proud to truckle to a Superior. 1809― Char. Fox Wks. 1828 IV. 111 Ambition..which..truckles for office by the barter of principle. 1842Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. ix, These nobles..were the first to truckle down to him when he came to assert..his right. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 223 The short years which might have been his, had he..denied his faith and truckled to the time. 1885R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter i, Doubtful people of all sorts and conditions begging and truckling for your notice.
c. To submit or give way timidly; in quot. 1840, to quail, cower, be daunted.
1837Campbell Hybrias i, With these I make..all around me truckle. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxiii, Hugh truckled before the hidden meaning of these words. a1845Hood Jack Hall xii, To my commands The strongest truckles.
†3. trans. To cause to truckle. Obs. rare—1.
1687Good Advice 9 They..compell men to truckle their tender Consciences to the Grandure and Dominion of their Doctors.
†4. intr. and trans. To move on truckles or castors; = trundle v. 3 a, b. Obs.
1656[see truckling ppl. a.]. 1796F. Burney Camilla iii. xiii, Tables with two legs, and chairs without bottoms, were truckled from the middle to one end of the room.
¶5. intr. To traffic, deal. = truck v.1 5, 5 b. Const. with. rare.
1806R. Fellowes tr. Milton's 2nd Defence (1848) 293 Those money-changers..do not merely truckle with doves, but with the Dove itself, with the Spirit of the Most High. 1909Q. Rev. July 284 He declined to truckle with any practices tending, as he thought, towards Rome.
▪ III. truckle
obs. form of trickle v. |