trendle

English

Etymology

From Middle English trendel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English trendel (“circle, ring”), a variant of Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend +‎ -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend, trindle.

Noun

trendle (plural trendles)

1. (obsolete) A wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     The shaft the wheele, the wheele the trendle turnes

Related terms

• trendle-tail

References

• “trendle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• nerdlet

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrend.le/

Noun

trendle

1. dative singular of trendel