Defn: The business of conveying goods on trucks.
TRUCKLE Truc"kle, n. Etym: [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.]
Defn: A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
TRUCKLE Truc"kle, v. i. Etym: [From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.]
Defn: To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." Burke. Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. Norris.
TRUCKLE
Truc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling.]
Defn: To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
TRUCKLE-BED
Truc"kle-bed`, n.
Defn: A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed." Shak.
TRUCKLER
Truc"kler, n.