Definition of "trundle"

"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?"

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 115

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

1670, John Evelyn, chapter 3, in Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees‎, London, page 21

[…] in case the Tree be very great […] you must then have a Gin or Crane, such a one as they have to Load Timber with; and by that you may weigh it out of its place, and place the whole upon a Trundle or Sledge, to convey it to the place you desire; and by the afore-said Engine you may take it off from the Trundle, and set it in its hole at your pleasure.

1676, Moses Cook, chapter 10, in The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forrest-Trees‎, London: Peter Parker, page 46

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.

2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child‎, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 276

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

1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear‎, London: Heinemann, Book 2, Chapter 1, section 5, p. 143

He could hear the trundle of cart wheels.

2019, Robert Harris, chapter 3, in The Second Sleep, London: Hutchinson

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.

1651, Cressy Dymock, An Invention of Engines in Motion‎, London: Richard Woodnoth, page 5

between as many Trundles, Or […]

1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 14

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.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 226

Party of six argent and sable, on a fesse gules, between three lions of England, two broches (or embroidery needles) saltirewise between as many trundles or. Crest. - On a heart the Holy Dove displayed, argent, radiated or.

2023 May 1, W. Sedgwick Saunders, A Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Coins, Gems, Autographs, Antiquities, and Works of Art, BoD – Books on Demand

When the bin men come down the back alley to trundle our wheelie bins to their truck, the dog becomes hysterical […]

1995, Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing‎, New York: HarperPaperbacks, published 1997, page 55

[…] they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth, with mighty retinues, and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them, when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them […]

1637, John Bastwick, The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the Exceptions Made against His Letany […] which is annexed to the Letany it selfe‎, Leiden, Letany, Part 2

The reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes, or, is trundled from the next market town in a wheelbarrow;

1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58

[…] Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.

1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 39

The kraal walls are two feet thick and higher than his head; they are made of flat blue-grey stones, every one of them trundled here by donkey-cart.

1997, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 11, in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life‎, London: Secker & Warburg, page 91

[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.

1662, John Birkenhead, The Assembly-Man‎, London: Richard Marriot, page 14

Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him.

1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 25

My trip ends at Wrexham General. While the '150' trundles the final half-mile down the single line to Wrexham Central, I nip over the footbridge to explore the main part of the station.

2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58

I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,

1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer‎, London: F. Newbery, act II, page 45

Last night they trundled down the road / That dead young soldier in his blood:

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

Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.

1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], Act I, scene ix, page 13

[…] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,

1957, D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places‎, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, part 1, p. 64

she let the marmalade stay where it was, trundling in blobs down her plump cheeks

1977, Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:

1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3

If thou, my Deere, a winner beAt trundling of the Ball,The wager thou shalt have, and me,And my misfortunes all.

1648, Robert Herrick, “Stool-ball”, in Hesperides‎, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, page 280

At gaming, perhaps, I may win;With cards I may take the flats in,Or trundle false dice, and they’re nick’d:

1784, John O’Keeffe, The Poor Soldier‎, Dublin, act II, scene 5, page 27

[…] all our dainty terms for fratricide,Terms which we trundle smoothly o’er our tonguesLike mere abstractions,

1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude‎, London: J. Johnson, page 6

[I am] so fatigued that when I am asleep you might sew my nose to my great toe and trundle me round the town like a Hoop without waking me.

1818, John Keats, letter to Fanny Keats dated 4 July, 1818, in Sidney Colvin (ed.), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, London: Macmillan, 1891, p. 122

At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles allTheyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytieMen were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ballIn them was no fayth, but infydelytye

1542, Robert Burdet, “The Fawcon”, in A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women‎, London: Rycharde Banckes

Water is apt to move, being round like Balls,No points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.

1653, Margaret Cavendish, “The Agilenesse of Water”, in Poems, and Fancies‎, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, page 28