truncature (trungkatur)

[= It. tronc a tura, The four horses In zoöl . , same as truncation . ing structure which trundled at their heels. .. truncht (trunch), n. [Also tronch ; tronc , trunk: see trunk .] A stake 2. To revolve; twirl. or small post. In the midst of them were four little tronches knocked into the ground, and small sticks laid over, on which they hung their pots, and what they had to seeth. Mourt's Journal, in New England's Memorial, App., p. 352. truncheon (trun'chon), n. [Formerly also trun chi on; And tho bow is grewen out of stock is or tronchons , and the tronchons or schaftis grewen out of the roote. Bp. Pecock , Repre or, i. 6. 2. The shaft of a spear or lance. He foyneth on his feet with his tronchoun . Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1757. They carry also the truncheons of their Lances with their Standards and Ensignes trailing along the ground. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 304. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 11. And there he threw the wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop. Cowper, John Gilpin. II. trans. 1. To roll, or cause to roll, as a circular or spherical thing or as something on casters or low wheels: as, to trundle a hoop; to trundle a wheelbarrow; hence, to cause to move off with a rolling gait or pace. She took an apple out of her pocket, And trundled it along the plain. Sir Hugh (Child's Ballads, III. 335). They. who play at nine holes, and who trundle little round stones. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 1089. I'll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. Trundling the hoop is a pastime of uncertain origin. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 490. 2. To cause to revolve; twirl: as, to trundle a mop. The English workman attains the same result by trun dling the gla during reheating, and by constantly withdrawing it from the source of heat. Gla - making , p. 65. One with a broken truncheon deals his blows. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 612. 4. A baton or staff of authority; specifically, in her ., the staff of the earl marshal of England. Two of these truncheons are borne saltier wise behind the escutcheon of the Duke of Norfolk, who is hereditary earl marshal. See marshal's staff , under marshall . Well, believe this, The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. 61. No sooner are the Three Strokes given, but out jumps Four Trunchion Officers from their Hovel, and with a sort of ill mannerly Reverence receive him at the Grate. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [II. 243. truncheon (trun'chon), v. t. [ An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 154. truncheoned (trun'chond). a . [ ing on casters, and designed to be pushed under a high bed when not in use; a truckle-bed. My wife and I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle - bed , which she desired to lie in, by us. Pepys , Diary, III. 269. trundle-head (trun'dl-hed), n. 1. The wheel that turns a millstone.-2. Naut . , the drumhead of the lower member of a double capstan. -3. One of the end disks of a trundle-wheel.