truckle

How To Use truckle In A Sentence

• Elsewhere in the city last Saturday, a double blade cutting machine and small drill were nicked from a van parked in Ballytruckle.
• He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.” A Country of Vast Designs
• 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
• I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused. Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large
• The gentleman in front of her announced that he had come to collect a cheddar - a whole truckle and they are big!
• There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds. STARDUST
• Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
• They frankly welcomed the new-comer, and if they did not, as Ingred had bitterly prognosticated, exactly "truckle" to her, they certainly began to treat her as a favorite. A Popular Schoolgirl
• Plenty of crusty bread and a big salad with a simplified cheese board, such as a whole Brie and a small truckle of Cheddar, will go down better than a pudding.
• Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister. Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain