▪ I. trendle, n.
(ˈtrɛnd(ə)l)
Forms: 1–5 trendel, 4–6 -il, 5 -ill, -yl, -ull, (trenle), 5–6 trendell(e, -yll, 7 -al, 4– trendle.
[OE. trendel circle, ring, coronet, disk, orb, circus, = MLG. trendel round disk, MHG. trendel, trindel ball, circle, whence (acc. to Falk and Torp) OSw. trindhel circle, Sw. dial. trinnel:—OTeut. *trendilo-, f. root of trend v. See also trindle, trundle.]
† 1. A circle, a ring, a coronet; a circular disk, orb; a ball, globe. Obs.
| a 900 O.E. Chron. an. 806 An wunderlic trendel [mirabilis corona] wearð ateowed abutan ðare sunnan. a 1000 Ags. Manual Astron. in Sax. Leechd. III. 242 Ðaes monan trendel is symle ᵹehal. c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 606 Seo lichamlice edwist, þæt is þære sunnan trendel. c 1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 333 Brevis [virgula] [i.e. {nfbreve}] ys anes trendles dæl þus licgende. 1388 Wyclif Isa. xxix. 3, Y schal cumpasse as a round trendil [1382 a bal; Vulg. sphæram] in thi cumpasse,..and Y schal sette engynes in to thi bisegyng. |
2. A wheel: = trindle n. 1, trundle n. 1, 2. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1324 Acc. Exch., K. R. Bd. 165 No. 1. m. 4 (P.R.O.) Pro xxviij snekkes cum xxviij stapulis ad tenendum trendles ligni pro springaldis tendendis. c 1400 Destr. Troy 453 Hir Ene as a trendull turned full rounde, First on hir fader, for feare þat she hade. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 502/1 Trendyl, troclea. 1538 Elyot, Spiræ, thynges whyche doo tourne and wynde in dyuers cerkles lyke a trendell... Also a cake made like a trendell. 1570 Levins Manip. 126/26 A Trendil, rota. 1887 Suppl. to Jamieson, Trendle, trindle, trenle, trinle, trunle, the wheel of a barrow, also the wooden portion of the wheel; a small wooden wheel such as is used for a trundle-bed. |
† 3. A suspended hoop or wheel on which tapers were fixed, forming a chandelier, used in churches on certain occasions before the Reformation. Obs.
| 1423 Will Hodesole (Somerset Ho.), Lego ad mantenendum le trendil ibidem. 1452 in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archæol. Jrnl. Oct. (1903) 78 At y⊇ makyng of y⊇ Est[er] tapur & y⊇ trendull we spendyd iiij. d. 1476 Croscombe Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 57 Item for a rope for the Trendell..ix{supd}. 1502–3 in Kerry Hist. St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 53 It. payed to John Turner for makyng of the Trendyll ij s{ddd}for corde to the same Trendyll, vj d{ddd}for tymber to make þe trendyll whele..for a bolte and a swevyll to the trendyll, ij d. 1524 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 22 For makyng of the trendell xviij{supd}. |
4. A vessel of flat rounded form; a round or oval tub used for various purposes; a circular trough or tray used by bakers. dial.
| 1493 Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 119 Thes be perselles that longyth to the Cherche howse..ix barellys..xxj trendyllys..ij trowys. 1516 Ibid. 135 Payd for hopyng a trendelle of y⊇ churche..iij{supd}. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 323 A Trendle, a flat Vessel, by some called a Kiver. 1847–78 Halliwell, Trendle,..a brewer's cooler. West. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 39 A clock with a face as big as a baking-trendle. |
5. A bundle of (partly cleaned) wool ‘trended’ or wound up (see trend v. 2 b). dial.
| 1805 J. Luccock Nat. Wool 298 Sworn winders..are engaged to strip off the coarse part of the fleece and to wind up only the better kind of wool; to tie about half a dozen fleeces together, and to ticket the weight of each bundle, or as it is there called trendle. |
6. Applied to various round or rounded objects (the identity of which cannot always be ascertained).
| 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 571/19 Catantrum, a trendell. Ibid. 586/29 Giraculum, a trendel. c 1468 Medulla Gram. (MS. Harl. 1738, lf. 39/2), Insubulus, a websters trendyl. [Insubuli is rendered web-beamas in Wr.-Wülcker 188/4.] 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 29 A maiden..did..cast vp and receiue again one after another twelf trendles or roundles. 1766 Compl. Farmer, Trendle, any thing that turns round. 1887 Suppl. to Jamieson, Trendle,..a wooden roller on which a heavy block is moved along. |
▪ II. † trendle, v. Obs.
Forms: see prec.; also 3 treondlin.
[f. prec. Cf. also trindle, trundle.]
1. trans. To cause to roll or revolve; to roll: = trundle v. 1 a.
| [a 1000 Boeth. Metr. v. 17 Atrendlod of ðæm torre.] 1382 Wyclif Judg. vii. 13 Y sawȝ a sweuen, and it seemed to me, as a loof of barlich..to be trendlid and into the tentis of Madyan to goo doun. c 1420 Liber. Cocorum (1862) 45 Take white pese,..Put hom in pot..Trendel hom in platere and pyke hom clene. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 502/1 Trendelyn a rownd thynge (A. trendlyn as with a rownde thynge), trocleo, volvo. 1552 Huloet, Trendle a ball, proijcere pilam. 1570 Levins Manip. 65/29 To Trendle, rotare. |
2. intr. To roll, revolve: = trundle v. 1 b.
| a 1225 Leg. Kath. 2361, & te riche lefdis Letten teares treondlin. a 1250 Owl & Night. 135 Þeyh appel trendli from þe treo. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 5954 Sche turnes & trendeles as doth a bal. c 1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 3712 He smote the sowdan with hys sworde, That the hedde trendyld on þe borde. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. ix. i. (W. de W.) y ij/1 A thynge that trenlyth [Bodl. MS. trendeþ] rounde abowte chaungyth not place towchynge all the hole. 1598 Yong Diana 300 A certaine thing like a round ball..that ran trendling in the meadow before vs. |
Hence † ˈtrendling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. ix. i. (W. de W.) y ij/1 Some meuynge that is chaungynge of place is trenlynge [Bodl. MS. trendinge] and rounde wynded abowte. a 1577 Gascoigne Flowers, Fruites of Warre xliv, A tickell treasure, like a trendlynge ball. |