truckle

Meanings

Noun

• A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
• A small wheel of cheese.
• A truckle bed.

Verb

• To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
• To sleep in a truckle bed.
• To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.

Origin

• From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea ("a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys"); or from a diminutive of truck, formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.
• From a back formation of truckle bed , from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with , truken, trokien, trukien, from , Low German truggeln ("to flatter, fawn"), see truck.