See trundle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27,\nLast night they trundled down the road\nThat dead young soldier in his blood:"
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"text": "1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 5, 6 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, pp. 57-58,\nThe reading female hires her novels from some country circulating library, which consists of about an hundred volumes, or, is trundled from the next market town in a wheelbarrow;"
},
{
"ref": "1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 39:",
"text": "[…] Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 11, in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, London: Secker & Warburg, page 91:",
"text": "The kraal walls are two feet thick and higher than his head; they are made of flat blue-grey stones, every one of them trundled here by donkey-cart.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed."
],
"links": [
[
"transport",
"transport"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1662, John Birkenhead, The Assembly-Man, London: Richard Marriot, page 14:",
"text": "[…] he can glibly run over Non-sense, as an empty Cart trundles down a Hill.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 25:",
"text": "Suddenly from around a bend a wagon trundled toward him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:",
"text": "My trip ends at Wrexham General. While the '150' trundles the final half-mile down the single line to Wrexham Central, I nip over the footbridge to explore the main part of the station.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move heavily (on wheels)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act II, page 45:",
"text": "I’ll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that shall trundle you off in a twinkling,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1928, W. B. Yeats, “Meditations in Time of Civil War,” 6. “The Stare’s Nest by My Window,” in The Tower, London: Macmillan, p. 27,\nLast night they trundled down the road\nThat dead young soldier in his blood:"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ix, page 13:",
"text": "Betty. They are gone Sir, in great Anger. / Pet[ulant]. Enough, let 'em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, ſaves Paint.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1957, D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, New York: Viking, Chapter 3, part 1, p. 64:",
"text": "[…] we set off again, the dog trundling apathetic at his master’s heels,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life:",
"text": "she let the marmalade stay where it was, trundling in blobs down her plump cheeks",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move, often heavily or clumsily."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to trundle a hoop or a ball",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1565, Andrew Boorde, Merie Tales of the Made Men of Gotam, London: Thomas Colwell, Tale 3,\nHe layde downe hys poake, and tooke the cheeses, and dyd trundle them downe the hyll one after another:"
},
{
"ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “Stool-ball”, in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, page 280:",
"text": "If thou, my Deere, a winner be\nAt trundling of the Ball,\nThe wager thou shalt have, and me,\nAnd my misfortunes all.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1784, John O’Keeffe, The Poor Soldier, Dublin, act II, scene 5, page 27:",
"text": "At gaming, perhaps, I may win;\nWith cards I may take the flats in,\nOr trundle false dice, and they’re nick’d:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, London: J. Johnson, page 6:",
"text": "[…] all our dainty terms for fratricide,\nTerms which we trundle smoothly o’er our tongues\nLike mere abstractions,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1818, John Keats, letter to Fanny Keats dated 4 July, 1818, in Sidney Colvin (ed.), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, London: Macmillan, 1891, p. 122,\n[I am] so fatigued that when I am asleep you might sew my nose to my great toe and trundle me round the town like a Hoop without waking me."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along."
],
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"(transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along."
],
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{
"word": "roll"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1542, Robert Burdet, “The Fawcon”, in A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women, London: Rycharde Banckes:",
"text": "At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all\nTheyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie\nMen were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball\nIn them was no fayth, but infydelytye",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1653, Margaret Cavendish, “The Agilenesse of Water”, in Poems, and Fancies, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, page 28:",
"text": "Water is apt to move, being round like Balls,\nNo points to fixe, doth trundle as it falls.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To roll or revolve; to roll along."
],
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"(intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along."
],
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{
"word": "roll"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
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}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎrkaljam",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "търкалям"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "kruien"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "karren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "voortrollen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "pyörittää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "rollen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "schieben"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "trille"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katítʹ",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"tags": [
"concrete"
],
"word": "кати́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katátʹ",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"tags": [
"abstract"
],
"word": "ката́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kotyty",
"sense": "to wheel or roll, esp. by pushing",
"word": "котити"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels",
"word": "vierittää"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katítʹ",
"sense": "to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels",
"tags": [
"concrete"
],
"word": "кати́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katátʹ",
"sense": "to cause to roll slowly and heavily on wheels",
"tags": [
"abstract"
],
"word": "ката́ть"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎrkaljam se",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"word": "търкалям се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"word": "vieriä"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"word": "skrangle"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katátʹsja",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"tags": [
"abstract"
],
"word": "ката́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "katítʹsja",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"tags": [
"concrete"
],
"word": "кати́ться"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kotytysja",
"sense": "to move heavily (on wheels)",
"word": "котитися"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move (physically)",
"word": "liikuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move (physically)",
"word": "liikauttaa (momentane)"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to move, often heavily or clumsily",
"word": "valua"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to move, often heavily or clumsily",
"word": "tambalearse"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to roll or revolve",
"word": "vierittää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to roll or revolve",
"word": "rollen lassen"
}
],
"word": "trundle"
}
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