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# trundle

verb (trundles, trundled, trundling)

«trundle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To trundle is to roll along slowly and heavily, with a rumbling or bumping sound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#m1)

### In the lessons

a cart, barrel or wheelbarrow rolling along a road; in tales a character walks or rolls along, cheerful and steady; in lessons it describes slow movement of a heavy thing

### Examples

- The milk cart trundled down the lane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x1)
- Lambikin trundled along, singing to himself. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x2)
- The old man trundled his barrow up the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x3)
- We heard the bus trundling past the school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «trundle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trundle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trundle.html) on Mova free.