Definition of trundle
trundled
;trundling
play \ˈtrən(d)-liŋ, ˈtrən-dəl-iŋ\transitive verb
1a : to propel by causing to rotate : roll a … child who was trundling a hoop — Charles Dickensb archaic : to cause to revolve : spin
2 : to transport in or as if in a wheeled vehicle : haul, wheel trundled him off to school
intransitive verb
1 : to progress by revolving
2 : to move on or as if on wheels : roll buses trundling through the city
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Examples of trundle in a Sentence
She trundled her suitcase into the room.
The children trundled off to bed.
Recent Examples of trundle from the Web
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The streetcar is one of New Orleans' most recognizable cultural icons, trundling along slowly down the city's streets.
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In a few minutes, the three traffic dodgers — Lou DiPaolo, 24, of Dumont, N.J.; Anne Songcayauon, 23, of New Milford, N.J.; and James Rosenstein, 26, of South Orange, N.J. — trundled down Bunn Road and added more signs to the overpass display.
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The van slowly trundles forward and eventually stops in front of me.
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This means that the mushroom sprung from the ground when dinosaurs still trundled across the Earth.
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With the drivers trundling behind the safety car, Marcus Ericsson somehow crashed his Sauber and McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne imitated him moments later.
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On undulating farmland, the cooks, veiled in wood smoke, tended their creations while Duroc and Berkshire pigs trundled freely in the surrounding woods.
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As camera phone-toting locals looked on, the historic Zeynel Bey Mausoleum trundled to its new home in Hasankeyf, Turkey on May 12.
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With the nation trundling toward civil war, slavery inevitably had been an issue at the territory’s constitutional convention.
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Origin and Etymology of trundle
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Definition of trundle
1 : the motion or sound of something rolling
2 : trundle bed
3 : a round or oval wooden tub
Origin and Etymology of trundle
from trundle small wheel, alteration of earlier trendle, from Middle English, circle, ring, wheel, from Old English trendel; akin to Old English trendan to revolve — more at 2trend
TRUNDLE Defined for English Language Learners
trundle
playDefinition of trundle for English Language Learners
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: to roll (something) on wheels slowly and noisily
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: to move noisily on wheels
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: to walk slowly and heavily
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