truckle

[truhk-uhl]

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verb (used without object), truck·led, truck·ling.

to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually followed by to): Don't truckle to unreasonable demands.

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Origin of truckle

1605–15; special use of obsolete truckle to sleep on a truckle bed. See truckle²

SYNONYMS FOR truckle

grovel, bow, concede, kowtow.

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truckle

[truhk-uh l]

noun

truckle bed.

a pulley.

Origin of truckle

1375–1425; late Middle English trocle sheave, roller < Anglo-French < Latin trochlea pulley. See trochlea

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Examples from the Web for truckle

Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead.
Great Expectations|Charles Dickens
Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed.
The Dew of Their Youth|S. R. Crockett
Dark figures held down something that yelled and struggled on the truckle bed.
The Drunkard|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Madame Elizabeth was placed in a kind of kitchen, or wash-room, with a truckle bed in it, on the ground floor.
Maria Antoinette|John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

As for Sam, let him pass; he'll not grind the poor, nor truckle to the rich, when he gives up his stewardship in the kingdom come.
The Poor Scholar|William Carleton

British Dictionary definitions for truckle

truckle

verb

(intr usually foll by to) to yield weakly; give in

Derived Formstruckler, noun

Word Origin for truckle

C17: from obsolete truckle to sleep in a truckle bed; see truckle ²

noun

a small wheel; caster

a small barrel-shaped cheese

verb

(intr) to roll on truckles

(tr) to push (a piece of furniture) along on truckles

Word Origin for truckle

C15 trokel, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Latin trochlea sheaf of a pulley; see trochlea

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Word Origin and History for truckle

truckle

"small wheel or roller," late 14c., from Anglo-French trocle, from Latin trochlea "a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley," from Greek trokhileia "a pulley," from trokhos "wheel," from trekhein "to run," from PIE root *dhregh- "to run" (cf. Old Irish droch "wheel," Lithuanian pa-drosti "to run fast"). Truckle bed "small bed on wheels that can be stowed under a larger bed" is from mid-15c.

truckle

"give up or submit tamely," 1610s, "sleep in a truckle bed" (see truckle (n.)). Meaning "give precedence, assume a submissive position" (1650s, implied in truckling) is perhaps in reference to that type of bed being used by servants and inferiors, or from it simply occupying the lower position. Related: Truckled; truckling.

truckle

verb (used without object), truck·led, truck·ling.

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