trundling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]trundling (plural trundlings)
- gerund of trundle: the motion of something that trundles.
- 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
- [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
Verb
[edit]trundling
- present participle and gerund of trundle