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trundle verb [ ˈtrʌnd(ə)l ]

• (with reference to a wheeled vehicle or its occupants) move or cause to move slowly and heavily.
• "ten vintage cars trundled past"

trundle noun

• an act of moving slowly or heavily.
• "the journey was just a trundle around the Northern line"
Origin: mid 16th century (denoting a small wheel or roller): a parallel formation to obsolete or dialect trendle, trindle ‘revolve’; related to trend.


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