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truckle

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
truckle1

▶noun a small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar.

– origin ME (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman Fr. trocle, from L. trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
truckle2

▶verb (usu. truckle to) submit or behave obsequiously.

– derivatives
truckler noun.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘sleep in a truckle bed’): from truckle bed.

'truckle' also found in these Oxford entries:

truck - truckle bed - trundle bed

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