Truckle-bed
11truckle bed — truck′le bed n. fur trundle bed • Etymology: 1425–75 …
12truckle bed — noun A trundle bed …
13truckle-bed — n. Trundle bed …
14truckle-bed — …
15Truckle — Truc kle, v. i. [From truckle in truckle bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. Small,… …
16truckle — [truk′əl] n. [ME trocle < L trochlea, pulley, roller: see TROCHLEA] short for TRUCKLE BED vi. truckled, truckling [< TRUCKLE (BED): with reference to its low position] to be servile; cringe, submit, toady, etc.: usually with to …
17truckle — {{11}}truckle (n.) small wheel or roller, late 14c., from Anglo Fr. trocle, from L. trochlea a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley, from Gk. trokhileia a pulley, from trokhos wheel, from trekhein to run, from PIE root *dhregh to run (Cf. O.Ir. droch… …
18truckle — [15] A truckle is a ‘small wooden wheel or caster’. The word was originally used for a ‘pulley’ (an application which has now largely died out), and it was borrowed from Anglo Norman trocle. This in turn came via Latin trochlea ‘system of… …
19truckle — [15] A truckle is a ‘small wooden wheel or caster’. The word was originally used for a ‘pulley’ (an application which has now largely died out), and it was borrowed from Anglo Norman trocle. This in turn came via Latin trochlea ‘system of… …
20truckle — truckle1 truckler, n. trucklingly, adv. /truk euhl/, v.i., truckled, truckling. to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually fol. by to): Don t truckle to unreasonable demands. [1605 15; special use of obs. truckle to sleep on a truckle bed …
