truckle bed

plural truckle beds · alternative truckle-bed

1. Synonym of trundle bed.

   Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:

   c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

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   When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from upcountry) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208

   Synonyms: trundle bed