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truckle bed

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truckle bed
n.
A trundle bed.

truckle bed
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a low bed on wheels, stored under a larger bed, used esp formerly by a servant
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Noun1.truckle bed - a low bed to be slid under a higher bedtruckle bed - a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"
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truckle bed
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"Come in," said a voice which he recognized as that of the mendicant, whom he found lying on a kind of truckle bed.
Each of these cells holds a small truckle bed, in which one prisoner sleeps; never more.
For the rest, she knew that after office- hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.
 
 
 
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