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# trundle

«trundle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to roll along slowly and heavily, with a rumbling or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (trundles, trundled, trundling)

### meaning for a pupil

To trundle is to roll along slowly and heavily, with a rumbling or bumping sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a cart, barrel or wheelbarrow rolling along a road; in tales a character walks or rolls along, cheerful and steady; in lessons it describes slow movement of a heavy thing

### examples

- The milk cart trundled down the lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x1)
- Lambikin trundled along, singing to himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x2)
- The old man trundled his barrow up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x3)
- We heard the bus trundling past the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trundle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trundle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.