trun dle, trendle, trendelyn, tryndell

i. & t. [TRUNDLE, 8. ] A. Intransitive : *1. To roll, as on little wheels or castors; as, a bed trundles under another. 2. To roll or bowl along. "Another sung to a plate, which he kept trundling on the edges: nothing was now heard but singing."-Goldsmith: E ays, i. *3. To bowl, flow, or run along. "In the four first it is heaved up by several spondees intermixed with proper breathing places, and at last trundles down in a continued line of dactyls."- Add is on : Spectator. B. Transitive : *6. A speaking-tube. 4208 *7. A long tube through which peas, pellets, ., were driven by the force of the breath; a peashooter. *8. ( Pl .): Trunk-hose (q. v.). 9. A box or chest, usually covered with leather or its substitute, used for containing clothes, .; a box for carrying clothes, ., about when traveling. "By the foresayde place or shryne, where the holy martyrs bodyes lay, he ordeyned a cheste, or trunke of clene syluer, to then tent yet all suche iuellys and ryche gyftes as were offryd to the holy seyntis, shuld therein be kepte to the vse of the mynstres of the same place."- Fabyan : Chronycle, ch. cxxxi. 10. A box in which certain fish, as cod, plaice, turbot, eels, ., are sent to market. A trunk holds 1. To roll, as on little wheels or castors; as, to from seventy to eighty pounds of fish. ( Eng .) trundle a bed or gun-carriage. IMG:content-1498.jpg:[blocks in formation]