truckle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
    trundle bed; trundle; truckle bed.
  2. verb yield to out of weakness
  3. verb try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
    fawn; kowtow; kotow; bootlick; toady; suck up.
    • He is always kowtowing to his boss

WordNet

Truc"kle noun
Etymology
Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.
Definitions
  1. A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
Truc"kle intransitive verb
Etymology
From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.
Definitions
  1. To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." Burke.
    Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. Norris.
Truc"kle transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Truckled ; present participle & verbal noun Truckling
Definitions
  1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

Webster 1913