trendle

noun

1. A wheel, spindle, or other thing that rotates in a similar way, such as a trundle.

   obsolete

   The shaft the wheele, the wheele the trendle turnes

Where it comes from

From Middle English trendel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English trendel (“circle, ring”), a variant of Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend + -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend, trindle.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry trendle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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