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▪ I. trundle, n.|ˈtrʌnd(ə)l|
Also 6–7 trundel(l), 7 trondle, 8–9 Sc. truntle, 9 dial. trunnel, -nle.
[A parallel form to trendle, trindle n.]
I. Something that trundles or is trundled.
1. A small wheel, roller, or revolving disk; esp. a small but massive wheel adapted for supporting a heavy weight, as the wheel of a castor.
1564,1602[see trundle-bed β]. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 257 Wheel, Truckle, Trundle. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. vi. 68 Points, Halfs, and Quarters, which is on the two Trundles. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 16 They are submitted to the buff, which is a trundle of wood covered with thick soft leather, and made to revolve rapidly.
b. Organ-building. In the draw-stop action, A roller with two arms by the rotation of which a slider is drawn or replaced.
1876–98Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 342 When the stop is pulled out, the arms aa draw the trace b from right to left, the end of the trundle c being attached to the trace is moved in a similar direction, whilst the other end of the trundle d moves in an opposite direction, and draws out the slider. 1881W. E. Dickson Organ-Build. x. 130 The connection of these horizontal draw-bars with the vertical levers will be effected by squares or bell-cranks of a form known as ‘trundles’.
2. A device consisting of two discs turning on an axle, and connected by a series of parallel staves cylindrically arranged, which engage with the teeth of a cog-wheel; a lantern-wheel. In early use, each of such discs (= trundle-head (a): see 7). Also, each of the staves of this device.
1611Cotgr., Lanterne à pagnons, a paire of trundles, or trundle heads; that which is turned about by the cog wheele of a Mill. 1660R. D'acres Art Water-drawing 13 Great wooden wheels with Coggs in them, working Trundles with round staves in them. 1764J. Ferguson Lect. iii. 35 A winch six inches long, fixt on the axis of a trundle of 8 staves or rounds. 1801Bournon in Phil. Trans. XCI. 186 They form a kind of indented cylinders, which have some resemblance to the trundle of a mill. 1829Nat. Philos. I. Mechanics ii. vii. 30 (Usef. Knowl. Soc.) The cylindrical teeth or bars of the lantern are called trundles or spindles. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 125 He employed cast iron pinions, instead of the wooden trundles formerly used.
3. A low truck or carriage on small wheels. ? Obs.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 22 [In replanting a tree] You may weigh up, and place the whole weighty Clod upon a Trundle to be convey'd, and Replanted where you please. 1766Compl. Farmer, Trundle, a sort of carriage with low wheels, for carrying heavy and cumbersome loads.
4. An embroiderer's quill of gold thread; in Her., a charge representing this.
c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Trundles, quills of gold thread used by embroiderers, and borne by them in the Arms of their Company. 1894Parker's Gloss. Her. 225 Embroiderers' Broaches, Trundles, and Quill... The Trundle represents a quill of gold thread, two of which are represented in the arms of the London company.
II. An act of trundling (lit. or fig.).
5. An act of trundling or rolling; an impulse that causes something to roll.
1893Q. Couch Delect. Duchy 95 They..gave the stone a trundle.
6. fig. A going along or away; a course; departure: in phr. to run or take one's trundle, to take one's course. dial.
1675V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 388, I resolved he should run his Trundle. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 41 So take your trundle now, and good luck may ye see! Ibid. II. 97 Ye're each at once as free To take your trundle as ye us'd to be.
III. 7. attrib. and Comb. (in some cases perh. directly from the vb.): trundle-head, (a) each of the discs of a trundle (sense 2); (b) = sense 2; (c) Naut. (see quot. 1867); trundle-shot, a shot consisting of a bar of iron with sharpened ends and a ball of lead attached near each end so as to cause it to turn in its flight; trundle-wheel = sense 2. See also trundle-bed, -tail; also trunnel-head, -hole s.v. trunnel.
1611*Trundle heads [see 2]. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Madder, The trundle-head, thirteen inches semi-diameter, furnished with eighteen rounds, each a foot long, and two inches diameter: the ends of this trundle-head are two inches and a half thick. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Trundle⁓head, the lower drum-head of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lower deck.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xiv. 67 *Trundle shot is..a bolt of iron sixteene or eighteene inches in length; at both ends sharpe pointed, and about a handfull from each end a round broad bowle of lead.
1807Joyce Sci. Dial. xvii. (1846) 47 A small *trundle wheel made to work in the cogs. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 357/2 A part of an ancient trundle wheel was found a few days ago in Chalmerston Moss.
▪ II. ˈtrundle, v.
Forms: see prec.
[A parallel form to trendle, trindle v.; cf. OF. trondeler to fall rolling (Godef.), ‘to trundle as a ball’ (Cotgr. 1611).]
I.
1. a. trans. To cause to roll along upon a surface, as a ball, hoop, or other globular or circular object; to roll, bowl. Also fig.
1598Florio, Carrucolare, to trundle or rowle. 1601Holland Pliny viii. vii. I. 196 One Elephant did wonders:..hee caught from them their targuets and bucklers perforce, flung them aloft into the aire, which as they fell, turned round, as if they had beene trundeled by art. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Pennilesse Pilgr. Wks. i. 122/2 There did we trundle down health after health. 1698Vanbrugh æsop iii. i, I could tell my mother's pedigree before I could speak plain; which, to show you..the strength of my memory, I'll trundle you down in an instant. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 92 Various exercises.., such as wrestling.., and tossing or trundling leaden balls. 1798Coleridge Fears in Solit. 114 Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 109 George Hearn, the little post-boy, trundling his hoop at full speed. 1832Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 380 Sitting round a dirty board, with potatoes trundled out upon it, as the Irish do. 1901R. Anderson Hist. Kilsyth vi. 50 [He] trundled an orange across the floor.
b. intr. To move along on a surface by revolving; to roll. Also fig.
1629B. Jonson New Inn ii. i, To be cropp'd..Close to his head to trundle on his pillow. a1661Fuller Worthies, Cornw. (1662) i. 201 His Round-Table,..the tale whereof hath Trundled so smoothly along for many ages. 1711Addison Spect. No. 253 ⁋10 A Description in Homer's Odyssey, where Sisyphus is represented lifting his Stone up the Hill..it is heaved up by several Spondees..and at last trundles down in a continual Line of Dactyls. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge v, Occasionally a hat or wig..came spinning and trundling past him.
c. Cricket. (trans. or absol.). To bowl. colloq.
The ball was originally trundled along the ground.
1849Punch 14 July 12/1 In those Days..they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand; but now they fling it over-handed from the Elbow. 1861Baily's Mag. July 140 Such bowling as was trundled by Mr. Lyttelton and Mr. Salter in this innings is rarely witnessed in a University match. 1870Ibid. Dec. 213 Six out of the eleven have trundled the ball. 1882[see trundler b]. 1882[see trundling below]. 1898G. Giffen With Bat & Ball iii. 47 The bowlers, too, trundled with that specially placed on-field in their mind's eye. 1959Punch 3 June 747/2 Four of the team bowl leg-spinners.., and Gupte is reported to be the best of his type now trundling.
2. a. trans. To cause to rotate; to twirl, spin, whirl (something held in the hand); spec. to twirl (a mop) so as to free it from water. Cf. roll v.2 5.
a1756[see trundled below]. 1787Colman Prose on Sev. Occas. III. 277 While Footmen, women grown..Shall darn old hose, sweep rooms, and trundle mops. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 60 Instead of trundling the theodolite they yoked the oxen. 1883H. J. Powell Glassmaking 65 The English workman attains the same result by trundling the glass during reheating.
b. intr. for pass.
1782[see trundling below].
3. a. intr. To move or run on a wheel or wheels. (Cf. roll v.2 12 c.)
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 16/2 Such are termed Truckle beds, because they trundle under other beds. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 59 To see the wheelbarrow trundle. 1824Blackw. Mag. IV. 95 The night coaches and mails were now trundling in. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xiv, Numbers of fine carriages..trundle up.
b. trans. To draw or push along on a wheel or wheels, as a wheelbarrow, vehicle, etc.
1825Scott Let. 7 June, A light barouche..which two horses will trundle along like a bowl. 1862Sala Seven Sons II. iii. 80 [He] was trundling a wheelbarrow full of sand. 1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 128 If nurse..was requested..to trundle the perambulator.
4. a. trans. To convey in a wheeled vehicle, to wheel.
1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. ad fin., I'll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling. 1842J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 142 The children are all trundled away out of the cottage. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. ix. 156 As many bricks as an Irish labourer would trundle in a wheel-barrow. 1869Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 413 The Bath chairs trundling the dowagers about the streets.
b. intr. To go in a wheeled vehicle (in quot. 1909, on a bicycle or tricycle).
1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxii, Mr. Tappertit trundled off with the chaise. 1909Spectator 31 July 164/2 On my trusty ‘Rover’ I trundle down the brae.
5. a. fig. (intr.) To go, walk, or run easily or rapidly; to go away, ‘be off’; also, to walk unsteadily or with a rolling gait.
1680V. Alsop Mischief Impos. iv. 27 Some may come [to their own Parish-church] out of custom, because they have used to trundle thither down the hill. 1700Congreve Way of World i. ii, Bet. They are gone, sir, in great anger. Peb. Enough, let 'em trundle. a1754Fielding Fathers iv. i, The next morning down trundled her and I to Dirty Park. 1820Lady Granville Lett. 22 Aug., She..trundled out of the House. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. x. 220 Sarah Jane rolled, I might almost say, trundled in.
b. trans. To carry or send off, turn out, dismiss.
1794Wolcott (P. Pindar) Dinah 99 Wks. 1816 III. 315 Off were the couple trundled—man and maid. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, The women..always contrived to trundle me out of favour before the honeymoon was over.
II. [back-formation from trundle-bed.]
†6. intr. To occupy a trundle-bed; = truckle v. i. Obs. rare—1.
c1626Dick of Devon. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 61 You and your brother Manuell lay in the high Bed, and I trondling underneath.
Hence trundled |ˈtrʌnd(ə)ld| ppl. a., ˈtrundling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1637B. Jonson Horace, Art Poetrie 568 Who's unskilful at the coit, or ball, Or trundling wheele. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 68 As a Coach may be so tickly set..as to give it self a trundling. a1756E. Haywood New Present (1771) 256 The house-maid then, with a trundled mop, dries the floor very neatly. 1782Cowper Gilpin 139 Just like unto a trundling mop. 1803R. Couper Tourifications xvi. II. 121 The extremity of this avenue was crossed by a fine little clear trundling rivulet. 1861W. J. Prowse in Bell's Life 10 Nov. 6/3 But however good their trundling—pitch or pace, or break, or spin—Still the monarch of all bowlers, to my mind, was Alfred Mynn! 1862Baily's Mag. Apr. 260 The Eleven then commenced batting to the trundling of Moore and Conway. 1882Daily Tel. 19 May, Making a slashing drive to the off for 4 from the same trundling. 1908Chron. Lond. Mission. Soc. Mar. 47/2 Trundling carts threw up clouds of choking dust.
▪ III. trundle
obs. form of treenail. |