Definition of "trundle" [trun•dle]

• A small wheel or roller. (noun)
• The motion or noise of rolling. (noun)
• A trundle bed. (noun)
• A low-wheeled cart; a dolly. (noun)
• To push or propel on wheels or rollers: "I doubt if Emerson could trundle a wheelbarrow through the streets” ( Henry David Thoreau). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master."
• "Back in slavery time I recall the trundle bed that we children slept on."
• "Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it."