truckle bed

English

Etymology

truckle +‎ bed

Noun

truckle bed (plural truckle beds)

1. Synonym of trundle bed.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:

     When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from upcountry) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.

Alternative forms

• truckle-bed

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967