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trendle

trendle noun: a wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.

Noun

trendle (plural trendles)

  1. (obsolete) A wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.
    • The shaft the wheele, the wheele the trendle turnes1608, [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...

Forms of trendle

pluraltrendles

Origin of trendle

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.

Questions about trendle

What does trendle mean?
Trendle means a wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.
What part of speech is trendle?
Trendle is a noun.
What is the plural of trendle?
The plural of trendle is trendles.

Words near trendle in the dictionary

  1. trendings
  2. trendione
  3. trendite
  4. trendites
  5. trendjacking
  6. trendle
  7. trendle-tail
  8. trendle-tails
  9. trendles
  10. trendless
  11. trendlessness

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