Forms: 4–6 trindel, (5 -ylle, 6 -al, -ell, -ill(e; 4 tryndall, 5 -yl, -el, 5–6 -elle, -yll, -ylle, 6 -ell, -ull, tryndle, trynle, tryneyll, 7–9 Sc. trinle, 9 Sc. trinnel, trinnle), 6– trindle; also 8–9 Sc. trintle. [Early ME. trindel, a parallel form to TRENDLE, corresp. to MHG. trindel, from *trendilo-; see also the various trind- forms under TREND v., and cf. TRUNDLE v.]
1. A wheel; esp. a ‘trundle’ or lantern-wheel in a mill; also, the wheel of a wheelbarrow: = TRENDLE sb. 2, TRUNDLE sb. 1, 2. Obs. exc. dial.
c. 1343. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 543. In j pari de Trindelis.
[1391. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 106. In tryndallo pro j porta infra cymiterium, 3d.]
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 696/13. Hec troclia, a trindylle.
1455–6. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 241. Pro j pare de le tryndylles empto pro molendino de Milburn.
1531. Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII., V. 180. For working of the tryndyll of the myll at Hampnes Castell.
1587. Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 41. For a pere of myllne trynles, ijs xd. Ibid. (1594), 89. For makinge of a wholebarrowe trindle iiijd.
1786. Burns, The Inventory, 33. Ae auld wheelbarrow … I made a poker o’ the spin’le, An’ my auld mother brunt the trin’le.
1855. E. Waugh, Sk. Lanc. Life (1857), 65. He … order’t th’ wheelbarrow wi’ spon-new trindle t’ be fotcht.
† b. A spindle: cf. TRENDLE sb. 5. Obs.
1483. Cath. Angl., 393/2. A Tryndelle of A webster, insubulus (A. infusillus), troclea. Ibid., 412/2. A Weffer tryndylle, insubulus, troclea.
† 2. A roll or coil (?) of wax taper, used for light in mediæval churches. (Its nature is disputed: see quots. 1796 and 1852.) Obs. exc. Hist.
(App. something different from TRENDLE sb. 3.)
1537. in Reliquary, Jan. (1893), 40. Itm’ ij now tryneylls of waxe lytylle wasted.
1547. Edw. VI., Injunct., § 28. Also, that they shall take awaie, vtterly extincte, and destroye, all shrines,… candelstickes, tryndilles or rolles of waxe, pictures, paintynges [etc.].
1559. Q. Eliz., Injunct., § 23. Trindals, and Rolles of wax.
[1796. Pegge, Anonym. (1809), 42. Trindilles or trindals … may mean cakes of wax, which being round are therefore called trindles, or trundles.
1852. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. ix. 237. In some … instances it is likely that these long strings of wax taper were … coiled up … into folds, so as to form what we are to understand by trindles or rolls of wax.]
† 3. Something of rounded form, as a pellet of sheep’s or goat’s dung. Obs.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 203. The same Physitian prescribeth Goats trindles to be drunk in Wine against the Jaundise.
1660. Howell, Parly Beasts, 123. The very trindles drunck in wine are good against the Jaundise.
b. See quot. 1825. dial.
16[?]. in Daily News, 27 Dec. (1911), 3/2. To make a Haggisse Puddinge. Take a Calfe Trindle, a quart of Creame, halfe a dozin Egges, a Manshett, a pound of Currans, with Cinamon, Ginger, Nuttmegge, Mace, and Cloves, and Suger, and a little Rose water.
1825. Jamieson, Trinnel, calf’s guts.
4. Bookbinding. Each of several flat pieces of thin wood or metal, shaped something like toy horse-shoe magnets, by which (in pairs) the stitched, glued, and rounded back of a book is held flat while the front edge is plowed.
On the withdrawal of the trindles, the back resumes its convex form and the front edge becomes concave.
1818. Art Bk.-binding, 16. Put the trindles between the back of the book and paste-boards.
1885. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. IV. 239/2. A piece of thin millboard or ‘trindle’ is put between the hind board and the book.
