TRUNDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trundle mean? 

• TRUNDLE (noun)
  The noun TRUNDLE has 2 senses:

1. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

2. small wheel or roller

  Familiarity information: TRUNDLE used as a noun is rare.

• TRUNDLE (verb)
  The verb TRUNDLE has 1 sense:

1. move heavily

  Familiarity information: TRUNDLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUNDLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A low bed to be slid under a higher bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

truckle; truckle bed; trundle; trundle bed

Hypernyms ("trundle" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small wheel or roller

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("trundle" is a kind of...):

roller (a cylinder that revolves)

wheel (a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines))

• TRUNDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trundle    ... he / she / it trundles   
Past simple: trundled   
Past participle: trundled   
-ing form: trundling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the streetcar trundled down the avenue

Hypernyms (to "trundle" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Here you, matey, he cried to the man who trundled the barrow; bring up alongside and help up my chest.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a table, and a Dutch clock, and a chest of drawers, and on the chest of drawers there was a tea-tray with a painting on it of a lady with a parasol, taking a walk with a military-looking child who was trundling a hoop.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He looked upon it for a moment, thrusting forth his under jaw, tried the point upon his hand, and then, hastily concealing it in the bosom of his jacket, trundled back again into his old place against the bulwark.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)