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trundle

name · noun · verb · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtɹʌndəl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌndəl
  • CMU ARPABET: T R AH1 N D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A small wheel or roller.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

noun

Meaning 6

The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

noun

Meaning 7

A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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8

noun

Meaning 8

A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

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9

verb

Meaning 9

To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
  • to trundle a bed or a gun carriage

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

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

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11

verb

Meaning 11

To move heavily (on wheels).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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12

verb

Meaning 12

To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

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13

verb

Meaning 13

To move, often heavily or clumsily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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14

verb

Meaning 14

To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to trundle a hoop or a ball
  • 1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3, He layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:
  • 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, [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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: roll

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To roll or revolve; to roll along.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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Synonyms: roll

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

small wheel or roller

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: roller, wheel

17

noun

Meaning 17

a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trundle bed, truckle bed, truckle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bed

18

verb

Meaning 18

move heavily

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the streetcar trundled down the avenue

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Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote

History

Etymology

From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.

Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: мебелно колело (mebelno kolelo) — small wheel
  • Dutch: rolwieltje — small wheel
  • Finnish: rulla — small wheel
  • Hungarian: görgő — small wheel
  • Russian: колёсико (koljósiko) — small wheel
  • Russian: ро́лик (rólik) — small wheel
  • Ukrainian: коліщатко (koliščatko) — small wheel
  • Bulgarian: търкалям (tǎrkaljam) — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Dutch: kruien — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Dutch: karren — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Dutch: voortrollen — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Finnish: pyörittää — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • German: rollen — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • German: schieben — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Norwegian: trille — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Russian: кати́ть (katítʹ) — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Russian: ката́ть (katátʹ) — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Ukrainian: котити (kotyty) — to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing
  • Finnish: vierittää — to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels
  • Russian: кати́ть (katítʹ) — to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels
  • Russian: ката́ть (katátʹ) — to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels
  • Bulgarian: търкалям се (tǎrkaljam se) — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Finnish: vieriä — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Norwegian: skrangle — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Russian: ката́ться (katátʹsja) — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Russian: кати́ться (katítʹsja) — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Ukrainian: котитися (kotytysja) — to move heavily (on wheels)
  • Finnish: liikuttaa — to move (physically)
  • Finnish: liikauttaa (momentane) — to move (physically)
  • Finnish: valua — to move, often heavily or clumsily
  • Spanish: tambalearse — to move, often heavily or clumsily
  • Finnish: vierittää — to cause to roll or revolve
  • German: rollen lassen — to cause to roll or revolve