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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: trundle 'small wheel' (16-21 centuries), from trendle 'circle, ring, wheel' (11-17 centuries), from Old English trendel

trundle

 verb
     
trun‧dle [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive]
to move slowly along on wheels, or to make something do this by pushing or pulling it:
Two large wagons trundled by.
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