Truckle

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  • noun. A small wheel or roller; a caster.
  • intransitive verb. To be servile or submissive. synonym: fawn.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A wheel of a pulley; also, a pulley.
  • noun. Jabol, a truckle or pullie. … Moufle, a truckle for a pullie.
  • noun. A small wheel or caster.
  • noun. A small flat cheese.
  • noun. A truckle-bed.
  • To move on rollers or casters; trundle.
  • To sleep in a truckle-bed. See truckle, n., 4, and truckle-bed.
  • Hence To be tamely subordinate, as a pupil to his tutor, or a servant to his master; yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; submit; cringe; act in a servile manner: usually with to or under.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small wheel or caster.
  • intransitive verb. To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
  • transitive verb. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a small wheel; a caster or pulley
  • verb. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
  • verb. to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
  • verb. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
  • verb. yield to out of weakness
  • Word Usage
    ""I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused."
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