truckle

Meanings

1. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
2. A small wheel of cheese.
3. Ellipsis of truckle bed.

1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
2. To sleep in a truckle bed.

1. To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.

Etymology

From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.