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English
Etymology
From truckle + bed.
Noun
truckle bed (plural truckle beds)
- Synonym of trundle bed.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 208:When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from upcountry) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967