trundlers

Noun

trundler (plural trundlers)

1. A person who trundles (something or someone).
   • I shall begin with the Married Ladies, as this order will be found to be far the most numerous, and includes all the married women in town or country above the degree of a chair-woman or the trundler of a wheel-barrow.1755, George Colman, The Connoisseur, volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, page 260
2. A bowler (player throwing the ball).
   • The high delivery of modern bowlers would horrify the famous trundlers of the good old days, when to deliver the ball from above the level of the shoulder was as heinous an offence as throwing is to-day […]1899, W. G. Grace, “W.G.”: Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections, London: J. Bowden, Introduction, page xv
   1. A bowler who bowls slowly; a mediocre bowler.
      • The next bowler was a trundler, and Luton, evidently inspired by Bognor’s cover drive, hit him to all corners of the ground.1979, Tim Heald, chapter 5, in Just Desserts, New York: Scribner, page 104
3. (New Zealand) Shopping cart.
   • The supermarket, its turnstiles and trundlers, gave substance to hopes as desirable and distant as heaven.1989, Trudie McNaughton, In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women, 1870s-1980s, Century Hutchinson, page 153
4. (New Zealand) A foldable shopping bag with a light frame and wheels.
   • […] I couldn’t see where I was going and banged into a baggy old lady pulling a trundler full of shopping,1996, Tina Shaw, chapter 17, in Birdie, Auckland: David Ling, page 129
5. (Australia, New Zealand) Golf pushcart.
   • […] many golf trolleys, or trundlers as the Australians call them, are equipped with a small seat upon which to rest between shots.1988, Brian Morgan, “Australia, New Zealand and the Far East”, in A World Portrait of Golf, New York: Gallery Books, page 96

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