trundle, trendel, trendyl, trendyll, trindel, trindle

& a. [A. S. trendel, tryn del a circle; O. Fris. trind, trund =round; Dan. & Sw. trind. Probably there were A. S. verbs, trindan =to roll (pa. t. trand, pa. par. trunden ), and tren dan to cause to roll.] [TREND, TRENDLE.] A. As substantive: 1. A round body, a little wheel, a roller, a castor. 2. A round or cylindrical body. "Whether they have not removed all images, candlesticks, trindels , or rolls of wax."-Cranmer: Articles of Visitation. 3. A lantern-wheel (q. v.). *4. A trundle-bed (q. v.). 5. A small carriage with low wheels; a truck. B. As adject.: Shaped like a trundle or wheel; curled. trundle-bed, subst . A low bed on small wheels, trundled under another in the daytime, and at night drawn out for a servant or children to sleep on; a truckle-bed. trundle-head, s. 1. Naut .: The head of a capstan into whose peripheral sockets the capstan-bars are inserted. The trundle-head is from three to five feet in diameter, and has a handspike-socket for each foot of its periphery. The length of the bars is nearly three times the diameter of the trundle-head, say from eight to fourteen feet. 2. Gearing: One of the end discs of a trundle or lantern wheel (q. v.). trundle-shot, s. Project.: A bar of iron, twelve or eighteen inches long, sharpened at both ends, and a ball of lead near each end. trundle-tail, subst. A curled tail; a dog with a curled tail.