Other forms: trundling, trundled, trundles
To trundle is to roll along heavily and slowly. Trundle down the road, trundled the barrow, a trundling cart.
The heaviness and the slowness together are what the word carries, and there is usually a sound in it — trundling is not silent. It suits carts, trolleys and old vehicles. Note a trundle bed, which is a low one on wheels that slides under another.
1verbtrundleTo roll along heavily and slowly.
“An old bus trundled slowly along the country lane.”
trundle is a slow rolling.
Middle English trondlin is a variant of trendlen, from Old English trendlian, to roll. Trend comes from the same rolling.
Old English
trendlian
Middle English
trondlin
English, today
trundle
From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA