ˈtrundle-bed
Forms: α. 6 trendyll-, trindle-, tryndle-, trindell-; β. 6 trundell-, 6– trundle-; cf. trendle, trindle, trundle.
[trundle n. 1.]
= truckle-bed.
| α 1542 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For makyng a trendyll bed iiij{supd}. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 232 He slept quietly in the trindle bed. 1599 Nottingham Rec. IV. 250, j. trindle bedd; one mattrice. |
| β 1564 Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 96, j trundell bedd. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. vi. 979 When I was in Cambridge, and lay in a Trundlebed vnder my Tutor. 1667 Pepys Diary 9 Oct., My wife and I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle-bed. 1727 Dudley in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 68, I thought at first my Servants..were haling along a Trundle-bed. 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. iv, Aunt Chloe..had been busy in pulling out a rude box of a trundle-bed. |
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† ˈtrundle ˈbedstead Obs.| 1590 in Archæologia XL. 326 Itm. a trundell bedsted and a boulster. 1686 in Essex Rev. (1906) XV. 173 One trundle beadsted. |