ˈtruckle-bed
[truckle n. 2.]
A low bed running on truckles or castors, usually pushed beneath a high or ‘standing’ bed when not in use; a trundle-bed. So truckle bedstead.
| 1459 Stat. Magd. Coll. Oxf. xlv, Sint duo lecti principales, et duo lecti rotales, Trookyll beddys vulgariter nuncupati. 1531 in Rec. St. Mary at Hill 45 Item, an olde lytell coueryng for a lytell Trokell bed. 1597 Bp. Hall Sat. ii. vi. 5 First that He lie vpon the Truckle-bed, Whiles his yong maister lieth ore his hed. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. iv. v. 6 There's his Chamber, his House, his Castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed. 1662 Pepys Diary 1 May, To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 273 Sancho slept that night in a truckle-bed, in the apartment of Don Quixote. 1807 Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 302 Numbers [of peasants]..have not a bedstead, nor even what is called a truckle bed frame. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii, Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw. 1895 Rider Haggard Heart of World vii, A few chairs, a rough washing-stand, and two truckle bedsteads of American make. |