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otates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. "An axis or cylinder having a rundle about it." Bp. Wilkins.

A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14 [Written also runlet.]

To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

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.

One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail. Shak.

n narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.

A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).

The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair. All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. Dryden.

the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Same as Rundlet. "A stoup of sack, or a runlet of canary." Sir W. Scott.

Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed). Standing army. See Standing army, under Army. -- Standing bolt. See Stud bolt, under Stud, a stem. -- Standing committee, in legislative bodies, etc., a committee appointed for the consideration of all subjects of a particular class which shal…

To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.

A dog; a cur. "Bobtail tike or trundle-tail." Shak.

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

See Trundle.

To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed." Shak.

A trundle. [R.]

A lantern wheel; a trundle.