Truckle
['trʌk(ə)l] or ['trʌkl]
Definition
(n.) A small wheel or caster.
(v. i.) To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
(v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Cringe, stoop, crouch, submit, knuckle, yield (obsequiously), bend the knee, knock under.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cringe, stoop, crouch, bend_the_knee, yield, submit_servilely,[See DEAL]
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Examples
- He praises your hard spirit, your determined cast of mind, your scorn of low enemies, your resolution not 'to truckle to the mob,' as he says. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The house might be a good one, but Mr. Wrench was not going to truckle to anybody on a professional matter. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His pointing to the truckle bed in the corner, seemed gradually to bring that poor couch to Bradley's wandering remembrance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I said, the fault was in the men--men who truckle to lies and folly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And would you have me truckle to them? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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