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Definition truckle

Etymology 1

From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck +‎ -le.

Noun

truckle (plural truckles)

1. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
2. A small wheel of cheese.
3. A truckle bed.

Verb

truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)

1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
2. (intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed.

Etymology 2

From a back formation of truckle bed (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.

Verb

truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)

1. (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.

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