Meanings
plural trendles
- obsoleteA wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.
The shaft the wheele, the wheele the trendle turnes
1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*trundil“ring, hoop”
- Old Englishtryndel“circle, ring”
- Old Englishtrendel“circle, ring”
- Middle Englishtrendel“wheel, roller”
- Englishtrendle
From Middle English trendel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English trendel (“circle, ring”), a variant of Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend + -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend, trindle.
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