Forms: α. 6 trendyll-, trindle-, tryndle-, trindell-; β. 6 trundell-, 6– trundle-; cf. TRENDLE, TRINDLE, TRUNDLE. [TRUNDLE sb. 1.] = TRUCKLE-BED.

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  α.  1542.  MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb., For makyng a trendyll bed iiijd.

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1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 232. He slept quietly in the trindle bed.

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1599.  Nottingham Rec., IV. 250. j. trindle bedd; one mattrice.

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  β.  1564.  Knaresborough Wills (Surtees), I. 96. j trundell bedd.

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1602.  2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., II. vi. 979. When I was in Cambridge, and lay in a Trundlebed vnder my Tutor.

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1667.  Pepys, Diary, 9 Oct. My wife and I in the high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle-bed.

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1727.  Dudley, in Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 68. I thought at first my Servants … were haling along a Trundle-bed.

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1852.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., iv. Aunt Chloe … had been busy in pulling out a rude box of a trundle-bed.

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  So † Trundle bedstead Obs.

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1590.  in Archæologia, XL. 326. Itm. a trundell bedsted and a boulster.

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1686.  in Essex Rev. (1906), XV. 173. One trundle beadsted.

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