Obs. Forms: see prec.; also 3 treondlin. [f. prec. Cf. also TRINDLE, TRUNDLE.]
1. trans. To cause to roll or revolve; to roll: = TRUNDLE v. 1 a.
[a. 1000. Boeth. Metr., v. 17. Atrendlod of ðæm torre.]
1382. Wyclif, Judg. vii. 13. Y sawȝ a sweuen, and it seemed to me, as a loof of barlich … to be trendlid and into the tentis of Madyan to goo doun.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 45. Take white pese,… Put hom in pot … Trendel hom in platere and pyke hom clene.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 502/1. Trendelyn a rownd thynge (A. trendlyn as with a rownde thynge), trocleo, volvo.
1552. Huloet, Trendle a ball, proijcere pilam.
1570. Levins, Manip., 65/29. To Trendle, rotare.
2. intr. To roll, revolve: = TRUNDLE v. 1 b.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 2361. & te riche lefdis Letten teares treondlin.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 135. Þeyh appel trendli from þe treo.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 5954. Sche turnes & trendeles as doth a bal.
c. 1450. Guy Warw. (C.), 3712. He smote the sowdan with hys sworde, That the hedde trendyld on þe borde.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., IX. i. (W. de W.), y ij/1. A thynge that trenlyth [Bodl. MS. trendeþ] rounde abowte chaungyth not place towchynge all the hole.
1598. Yong, Diana, 300. A certaine thing like a round ball … that ran trendling in the meadow before vs.
Hence † Trendling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., IX. i. (W. de W.), y ij/1. Some meuynge that is chaungynge of place is trenlynge [Bodl. MS. trendinge] and rounde wynded abowte.
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Flowers, Fruites of Warre, xliv. A tickell treasure, like a trendlynge ball.
