trundler

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trundle +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

trundler (plural trundlers)

  1. A person who trundles (something or someone).
    • 1755, George Colman, The Connoisseur‎[5], volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, page 260:
      I shall begin with the Married Ladies, as this order will be found to be far the most numerous, and includes all the married women in town or country above the degree of a chair-woman or the trundler of a wheel-barrow.
    • 1845, Albert Richard Smith, chapter 8, in The Fortunes of the Scattergood Family‎[6], volume 1, London: R. Bentley, page 122:
      According to the venerable woodcuts which form the frontispieces to Primers of the dark ages, the paths of learning run through […] pleasant pastures agreeably diversified, and peopled by joyous hoop-trundlers and kite-flyers,
    • 1879, George Augustus Sala, chapter 19, in Paris Herself Again in 1878-1879‎[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, London: Remington, page 326:
      At length a friendly trundler of a Bath-chair […] came to my assistance,
    • 1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 20, in The Tunnel of Love,‎[8], Boston: Little, Brown, page 223:
      Pushing the pram […] he would have struck you that much less as a character headed for rhetorical doom. […] The child grew daily more the spit of his trundler, with the jolliest impersonation of his father’s grin.
    • 1990, James Mitchell, chapter 49, in A Woman to Be Loved‎[9], London: Sinclair-Stevenson, page 562:
      The canapés arrived, a whole trolley-load, and Jane gave its trundler a dollar […]
  2. (cricket) A bowler (player throwing the ball).
    • 1899, W. G. Grace, “W.G.”: Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections‎[10], London: J. Bowden, Introduction, page xv:
      The high delivery of modern bowlers would horrify the famous trundlers of the good old days, when to deliver the ball from above the level of the shoulder was as heinous an offence as throwing is to-day […]
    • 1914, William Bardsley Brash, chapter 10, in Love and Life‎[11], London: C.H. Kelly, page 146:
      Sometimes he would bowl to one of his children, and although on the field (a small strip of garden) there were only two cricketers, he would turn it into an England v. Australia match. The one batsman would stand for eleven men, and the one trundler would play the part of the regular and change bowlers […]
    • 1978, Michael Anthony, The Making of Port-of-Spain, Port-of-Spain: Ministry of Sport, Culture, and Youth Affairs, Volume 2, Chapter 21, p. 123,[12]
      It was the first time the crowd was seeing this lithe, gangling trundler, sending down orthodox spin from the left arm.
    1. (cricket) A bowler who bowls slowly; a mediocre bowler.
      • 1979, Tim Heald, chapter 5, in Just Desserts‎[13], New York: Scribner, page 104:
        The next bowler was a trundler, and Luton, evidently inspired by Bognor’s cover drive, hit him to all corners of the ground.
      • 2010, Kate De Goldi, chapter 8, in The 10 p.m. Question‎[14], Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, page 217:
        But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.
  3. A device that is trundled (pushed or pulled on wheels).
    1. (New Zealand) Shopping cart.
      • 1989, Trudie McNaughton, In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women, 1870s-1980s‎[15], Century Hutchinson, page 153:
        The supermarket, its turnstiles and trundlers, gave substance to hopes as desirable and distant as heaven.
      • 2010, Wayne Thompson, “Electronic war on trolley thieves”, in New Zealand Herald‎[16]:
        A North Shore town centre is being ringed by an electronic fence in an attempt to stop thefts of supermarket trundlers.
    2. (New Zealand) A foldable shopping bag with a light frame and wheels.
      • 1996, Tina Shaw, chapter 17, in Birdie‎[17], Auckland: David Ling, page 129:
        […] I couldn’t see where I was going and banged into a baggy old lady pulling a trundler full of shopping,
      • 1988, Janet Frame, The Carpathians‎[18], New York: G. Braziller, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 24:
        Taking the blue canvas shopping trundler from the alcove in the hallway […] Mattina walked to where she hoped the dairy might be,
    3. (Australia, New Zealand) Golf pushcart.
      • 1988, Brian Morgan, “Australia, New Zealand and the Far East”, in A World Portrait of Golf‎[19], New York: Gallery Books, page 96:
        […] many golf trolleys, or trundlers as the Australians call them, are equipped with a small seat upon which to rest between shots.
    4. (obsolete) A device made of a wooden stick with a wheel at the bottom, a crossbar handle at the top, and a hook in the middle, used to move pails and cans while gardening.[1]
    5. (obsolete) A wooden-wheeled cart used for gardening.[2]
  4. (slang, obsolete) Pea (vegetable).[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ W. S. Rogers, Garden Planning, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1911, Appendix, p. 416.[1]
  2. ^ Stirling Natural History and Archæological Society Transactions, 1904-1905, p. 123.[2]
  3. ^ Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Trundlers, c. Peas.”[3]
  4. ^ B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., 1699: “Trundlers, c. Pease.”[4]
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