trundle

Everyday

To trundle is to roll along slowly and heavily, with a rumbling or bumping sound. tree →

In the lessons

a cart, barrel or wheelbarrow rolling along a road; in tales a character walks or rolls along, cheerful and steady; in lessons it describes slow movement of a heavy thing

Examples

• The milk cart trundled down the lane. tree →
• Lambikin trundled along, singing to himself. tree →
• The old man trundled his barrow up the hill. tree →
• We heard the bus trundling past the school. tree →

Note

nothing for maths