trundling

English

Etymology

From trundle +‎ -ing.

Noun

trundling (plural trundlings)

gerund of trundle: the motion of something that trundles.
- 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
  [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.

Verb

trundling

present participle and gerund of trundle

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