[TRUCKLE sb. 2.] A low bed running on truckles or castors, usually pushed beneath a high or ‘standing’ bed when not in use; a trundle-bed. So Truckle bedstead.
1459. Stat. Magd. Coll. Oxf., xlv. Sint duo lecti principales, et duo lecti rotales, Trookyll beddys vulgariter nuncupati.
1531. in Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 45. Item, an olde lytell coueryng for a lytell Trokell bed.
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., II. vi. 5. First that He lie vpon the Truckle-bed, Whiles his yong maister lieth ore his hed.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., IV. v. 6. There’s his Chamber, his House, his Castle, his standing-bed and truckle-bed.
1662. Pepys, Diary, 1 May. To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed.
1755. Smollett, Quix. (1803), IV. 273. Sancho slept that night in a truckle-bed, in the apartment of Don Quixote.
1807. Sir R. C. Hoare, Tour Irel., 302. Numbers [of peasants] … have not a bedstead, nor even what is called a truckle bed frame.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. iii. Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw.
1895. Rider Haggard, Heart of World, vii. A few chairs, a rough washing-stand, and two truckle bedsteads of American make.
