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Definition of Truckles
1. truckle [v] - See also: truckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truckles
Literary usage of Truckles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"A small barrel-shaped cheese of about 6 or 8 Ibs.—N. & SW truckles. ... NW (2) 'To
play truckles,'to roll anything, such as a reel, the top of a canister, ..."
2. Geometrical and Graphical Essays: Containing a General Description of the by George Adams (1813)
"This he performed by two telescopes, so placed at the truckles, as thereby to
see through both of them the given centre, and by thus directing them to the ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"A small barrel-shaped cheese of about 6 or 8 Ibs.— N. & SW truckles. ... NW (2) '
To play truckles, ' to roll any thing, such as a reel, ..."
4. Essays and Phantasies by James Thomson (1881)
"It truckles to him more abjectly than does any commonplace man in private life.
For this commonplace man makes boots or hats or coats, sells bread or meat ..."
5. Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and by Robert Hawley Clutterbuck (1898)
"1 Mr. Cane. no truckles or Sage. llth.—Cheese fair very full and said to be
sinking in price. This was the second supply in that year, for at Andover Fair ..."
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