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Truckle
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a verb meaning to submit servilely or fawningly to another's bidding, to yield in a weak, feeble or contemptible way. The origin is the "truckle bed," a small bed on wheels which could be pushed under a large one. In early times servants or children slept in such beds, placed at the foot of their masters' and parents' bed, but the name first appears as a university word, and was derived direct from Latin trochlea, a wheel or pulley-block, Greek Tpo X os, wheel (T / AxECv, to run).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Truckle'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/truckle.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Truckle'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/truckle.html. 1910.
