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truckle bed

NOUN
  1. a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

How To Use truckle bed In A Sentence

  • Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed, in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master. Archive 2007-10-01
  • There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds. STARDUST
  • There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds. STARDUST
  • At twenty, though obliged to trudge on foot from town to town, and country to country, paying for a supper and a bed by a tune on the flute, everything pleased, everything was good; a truckle bed in a garret was a conch of down, and the homely fare of the peasant a feast fit for an epicure. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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