Defn: A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels. Chapman.
TRUNDLEHEAD
Trun"dle*head`, n.
1. (Gearing)
Defn: One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.
2. The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
TRUNDLETAIL
Trun"dle*tail`, n.
Defn: A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail. Shak.
TRUNK Trunk, n. Etym: [F. tronc, L. truncus, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated; perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as trompe a trumpet), but has been confused in English with trunk the stem of a tree (see Trump a trumpet). Cf. Truncate.]
1. The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach. Milton.
2. The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.