Obs. or dial. Forms: see prec. [A parallel form to TRENDLE. Form history not clear. The OE. tryndyl- seems to imply derivation from the grade trund-: see TREND v.]
† 1. trans. To make round, to round. (Only OE.)
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 152/5. Circumtectum, tryndyled reaf.
2. trans. To cause (a wheel, etc.) to revolve; to cause (a ball, hoop, cask, etc.) to roll along a surface; to trundle.
1595. Barnfield, Cynthia, x. A golden Ball was trindled from aboue.
1637. Rutherford, Lett. (1862), I. 272. He hath other things to do than to play with me and to trindle an apple with me.
1808–18. in Jamieson, Trintle, trinle, v. a.
3. intr. To revolve or turn round (as a wheel, spindle, etc.); to roll (as a ball, hoop, cylinder, etc.) along a surface.
c. 1400. Ywaine & Gaw., 3259. Sir Ywain … strake his nek-bane right in sonder,… His hevid trindeld on the sand.
1530. Palsgr., 762/2. I tryndell, as a boule or a stone dothe, je roulle.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xlviii. If we were ance out o’ this trindling kist o’ a thing.
1894. Black, Highl. Cousins, I. 35. Your ball strikes the face of the hill and … comes quietly trintle, trintle, trintling down the slope.
