Trendle
/ˈtrɛn.dəl/noun
A small wheel, roller, low-wheeled cart, or low bed on wheels.
Did you know?A “trendle bed” was a low bed that could be rolled beneath a larger bed, commonly used by servants or children in earlier households.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*trandilą
“A small wheel or rolling object; reconstructed ancestral form”
Old English
Old English
trendel
“A ring, wheel, or circular object”
Middle English
Middle English
trendle
“A wheel, hoop, roller, or small wheeled vehicle”
15th–16th Century
English
trendle bed
“A low bed mounted on wheels, capable of being pushed beneath another bed”
Modern English
English
trendle
“A dialectal or historical term for a small wheel, low cart, or wheeled bed”