Rundle vs Trundle - What's the difference?
rundle | trundle |
(obsolete) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
* Brian Duppa
(obsolete) A ball.
(obsolete) Something that rotates about an axis, such as a wheel or the drum of a capstan.
* Bishop Wilkins
(engineering, obsolete) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
(Webster 1913)
A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
A small wheel or roller.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
(engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
Move heavily (on wheels).
To move (physically).
To move, often heavily or clumsily.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
As nouns the difference between rundle and trundle
is that rundle is a round; a step of a ladder; a rung while trundle is a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.As a verb trundle is
to wheel or roll, especially by pushing.rundle
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Holland)
- an axis or cylinder having a rundle about it
trundle
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (low bed on wheels) trundle bedVerb
(trundl)- Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
- to trundle a hoop or a ball
Derived terms
* trundle outReferences
* "trundle." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. 15 Jun. 2007.Dictionary.com. * "trundle." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. 15 Jun. 2007.
Dictionary.com.