Forms: 1–5 trendel, 4–6 -il, 5 -ill, -yl, -ull, (trenle), 5–6 trendell(e, -yll, 7 -al, 4– trendle. [OE. trendel circle, ring, coronet, disk, orb, circus, = MLG. trendel round disk, MHG. trendel, trindel ball, circle, whence (acc. to Falk and Torp) OSw. trindhel circle, Sw. dial. trinnel;:—OTeut. *trendilo-, f. root of TREND v. See also TRINDLE, TRUNDLE.]
† 1. A circle, a ring, a coronet; a circular disk, orb; a ball, globe. Obs.
a. 900. O. E. Chron., an. 806. An wunderlic trendel [mirabilis corona] wearð ateowed abutan ðare sunnan.
a. 1000. Ags. Manual Astron., in Sax. Leechd., III. 242. Ðaes monan trendel is symle ʓehal.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom. (Th.), II. 606. Seo lichamlice edwist, þat is þære sunnan trendel.
c. 1050. Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia, VIII. 333. Brevis [virgula] [i.e., ˘] ys anes trendles dæl þus licgende.
1388. Wyclif, Isa. xxix. 3. Y schal cumpasse as a round trendil [1382 a bal; Vulg. sphæram] in thi cumpasse,… and Y schal sette engynes in to thi bisegyng.
2. A wheel: = TRINDLE sb. 1, TRUNDLE sb. 1, 2. Obs. exc. dial.
1324. Acc. Exch., K. R., Bd. 165. No. 1. m. 4 (P.R.O.). Pro xxviij snekkes cum xxviij stapulis ad tenendum trendles ligni pro springaldis tendendis.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 453. Hir Ene as a trendull turned full rounde, First on hir fader, for feare þat she hade.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 502/1. Trendyl, troclea.
1538. Elyot, Spiræ, thynges whyche doo tourne and wynde in dyuers cerkles lyke a trendell…. Also a cake made like a trendell.
1570. Levins, Manip., 126/26. A Trendil, rota.
1887. Suppl. to Jamieson, Trendle, trindle, trenle, trinle, trunle, the wheel of a barrow, also the wooden portion of the wheel; a small wooden wheel such as is used for a trundle-bed.
† 3. A suspended hoop or wheel on which tapers were fixed, forming a chandelier, used in churches on certain occasions before the Reformation. Obs.
1423. Will Hodesole (Somerset Ho.). Lego ad mantenendum le trendil ibidem.
1452. in Berks., Bucks. & Oxon. Archæol. Jrnl., Oct. (1903), 78. At ye makyng of ye Est[er] tapur & ye trendull we spendyd iiij. d.
1476. Croscombe Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 57. Item for a rope for the Trendell … ixd.
1502–3. in Kerry, Hist. St. Lawrence, Reading (1883), 53. It. payed to John Turner for makyng of the Trendyll ij s. … for corde to the same Trendyll, vj d. … for tymber to make þe trendyll whele … for a bolte and a swevyll to the trendyll, ij d.
1524. Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading, 22. For makyng of the trendell xviijd.
4. A vessel of flat rounded form; a round or oval tub used for various purposes; a circular trough or tray used by bakers. dial.
1493. Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 119. Thes be perselles that longyth to the Cherche howse … ix barellys … xxj trendyllys … ij trowys. Ibid. (1516), 135. Payd for hopyng a trendelle of ye churche … iijd.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 323. A Trendle, a flat Vessel, by some called a Kiver.
1847–78. Halliwell, Trendle,… a brewer’s cooler. West.
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Madding Crowd, II. iii. 39. A clock with a face as big as a baking-trendle.
5. A bundle of (partly cleaned) wool ‘trended’ or wound up (see TREND v. 2 b). dial.
1805. Luccock, Nat. Wool, 298. Sworn winders … are engaged to strip off the coarse part of the fleece and to wind up only the better kind of wool; to tie about half a dozen fleeces together, and to ticket the weight of each bundle, or as it is there called trendle.
6. Applied to various round or rounded objects (the identity of which cannot always be ascertained).
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 571/19. Calantrum, a trendell. Ibid., 586/29. Giraculum, a trender.
c. 1468. Medulla Gram. (MS. Harl. 1738, lf. 39/2). Insubulus, a websters trendyl. [Insubuli is rendered web-beamas in Wr.-Wülcker, 188/4.]
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 29. A maiden … did … cast vp and receiue again one after another twelf trendles or roundles.
1766. Compl. Farmer, Trendle, any thing that turns round.
1887. Suppl. to Jamieson, Trendle,… a wooden roller on which a heavy block is moved along.
