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Meanings of truckle in English

Catalan
llit amb rodes
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A low bed to be slid under a higher bed.

llit amb rodes

Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.

Usage of truckle in English
1
Off with your cap, Snob; down on your knees, Snob, and truckle.
The Book of Snobs
2
Two truckle beds, a table, and two chairs formed the sole furniture.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
3
Quest was on his hands and knees, fumbling under his truckle bed.
The Black Box
4
At last the man came, shuffling, grumbling, and cursing, from his truckle-bed.
The Red Axe
5
I'm not going to truckle to rascals because I'm afraid of them.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life
6
The quaint word is the same as used in truckle or trundle bed.
The Complete Book of Cheese
7
The prophet had lain down with it on the truckle bed.
The Mormon Prophet
8
To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662
9
There, on a sort of truckle-bed in one corner, I saw the woman.
Aylwin
10
The stone passage was a solitude, and the truckle-bed was empty.
No Name
11
It was a large room, with several truckle beds standing against the walls.
Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
12
The smuggler had hanged himself by a cord taken from his own truckle-bed.
Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of t...
13
Their eleven-year-old sister Anne is in a truckle bed beside them, fast asleep.
The Lady of the Rivers
14
But I made her comfortable on the pillow of my truckle-bed.
The Invisible Man
15
Why truckle to a handful of disloyal North of Ireland traitors?
Defenders of Democracy / Contributions from representative men a...
16
I was lying on a truckle-bed-stone walls and a grated window!
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
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