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Pronunciation : Truc"kle
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.]
Definition : Defn: A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Truc"kle
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.]
Definition : Defn: To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." Burke. Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. Norris.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Truc"kle
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

t. [imp. & p. p. Truckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913