Middle English Dictionary Entry
trokel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | trokel n. Also trokele, troculle, trōkil & (?error) truckle; pl. trokeles, trokelus, trokle(i)s, trocle(i)s & trokel & (?error) crokeles. |
| Etymology | From L troc(h)lea, AL trokellus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A caster, wheel, roller, etc. employed in the moving of large objects; ?also, a pulley [quots. 1417 & a1450, 2nd]; ~ bed, a small movable bed on wheels or casters, trundle bed.
Associated quotations
- (1370) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 239 : In Trocleis emptis de Johanne Vadye pro uno dreye, v d.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.107 : [A] trokell [bound with iron worth 3 s. 4 d.].
- (1417) *For.Acc.(PRO) 8 Hen.V D/2 [OD col.] : j apparaille, ix pullifs, vj Trokles.
- (1417) *For.Acc.(PRO) 8 Hen.V, G/1 [OD col.] : Eiusdem Navis j appatu, ix Pullifs, vj Trocles, j securi.
- (1424) *Mun.B.Bridgewater1427 : For iij trokell, vj d.
- (1427) *For.Acc.(PRO) 61 [OD col.] : Trokleys eueis, pouderis clxvij lb.
- (1427) *For.Acc.(PRO) 61 [OD col.] : Trokele de euei.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)169/3 : The plute is a gyn of defence made like to þe side of an hous, wiþ a grounsel..and in þe groundsell þre trokeles or wheles to renne vpon.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)171/19 : When þe grete tour cometh to þe wall..than draweth þey & wyndeþ vp þe lasse tour wiþ ropes and trokeles [vrr. *trokelus, crokeles; L funibus trochleisque].
- (1459) Statut.Magd.Coll.Oxon.72 : Sint duo lecti principales, et duo lecti rotales, Trookyll beddys vulgariter appellati.
- (?1474) Stonor1.147 : A matres for þe truckle [OD reads, app. from MS: troculle] bedde yn þe same chambur.