Definition

1. Verb:

   • To move slowly and heavily, often with a rolling motion: Refers to the act of something, typically a wheeled vehicle or object, moving in a steady, often laborious, and sometimes noisy manner.
   • To cause something to roll or move along, especially something heavy or awkward: Refers to the act of pushing or pulling a wheeled object.

2. Noun:

   • A small wheel or roller: A low, often wide, wheel used for supporting and moving heavy objects.
   • A low bed on casters, designed to be stored under a higher bed: A type of bed, also historically called a truckle bed.

Usage Examples

• Verb (intransitive):
  • The old cart trundled along the dirt road.
  • The streetcar trundled down the avenue.
• Verb (transitive):
  • He trundled the wheelbarrow full of soil across the garden.
  • We had to trundle the piano into the corner of the room.
• Noun:
  • The heavy cabinet was mounted on trundles for easier movement.
  • As a child, I slept on the trundle that pulled out from under my sister's bed.

Advanced Usage

• "Trundle out" (phrasal verb): To bring something out, often something old, familiar, or unwieldy, especially for repeated use.
  • Every election season, politicians trundle out the same old promises.
• Describing repetitive, monotonous movement:
  • The days trundled by with little change in routine.

Variants and Related Words

• Trundle bed (noun): A low bed on wheels that can be stored under another bed.
• Truckle (verb/noun): An archaic variant, as in "truckle bed."

Synonyms

• Verb: Roll, lumber, rumble, wheel, haul.
• Noun: Caster, roller, dolly.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Trundle along: To continue moving slowly and steadily.
  • The project is just trundling along without any major breakthroughs.
• Trundle off: To depart or move away slowly.
  • The delivery van trundled off into the distance.

Related Idioms

• To trundle into view: To appear slowly and gradually.
  • As we rounded the bend, a small village trundled into view.

Noun

1. small wheel or roller
2. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

Verb

1. move heavily
   • the streetcar trundled down the avenue