truckle bed, trocclebed, trookyllbed

A bed running on castors, and capable of being pushed under another; a trundle-bed. It was formerly generally appropriated to young children, or to the servant or attendant, the master or mistre occupying the principal bed. "There's his chamber, his house, his castle. his standing-bed, and truckle -bed."- Shakesp .: Merry Wives , iv. 5. truckle-cheese, s. A small flat cheese. ( Prov .) trúc-kle, v. i. & t . [From truckle =truckle-bed, to truckle under , having reference to the old truc kle- bed which could be pushed under another larger one; and the force of the phrase being in the fact that a pupil or scholar slept under his tutor on a truckle-bed. ( Skeat .)] A. In trans .: To yield or give way obsequiously to the will of another; to cringe; to submit; to act in a servile manner. (Som times with under , generally with to .) "I cannot truckle to a fool of state." Church ill: Epis, to W. Hogarth. *B. Trans.: To move on rollers; to trundle. "Chairs without bottoms were truckled from the middle to one end of the room." -Mad. D'Arblay.