Synonyms for truckler


Grammar : Noun
Spell : truhk-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtrʌk əl

Top 10 synonyms for truckler Other synonyms for the word truckler

Définition of truckler

Origin :
  • "small wheel or roller," late 14c., from Anglo-French trocle, from Latin trochlea "a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley," from Greek trokhileia "a pulley," from trokhos "wheel," from trekhein "to run," from PIE root *dhregh- "to run" (cf. Old Irish droch "wheel," Lithuanian pa-drosti "to run fast"). Truckle bed "small bed on wheels that can be stowed under a larger bed" is from mid-15c.
  • As in apple polisher : noun yes person
  • As in hanger-on : noun person who attends the powerful for status or benefit
Example sentences :
  • To do this, it is not necessary for the Negro to become a truckler or a trimmer.
  • Extract from : « The Future of the American Negro » by Booker T. Washington
  • To do this, it is not necessary for the negro to become a truckler or a trimmer.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 » by Various
  • There is no cowardly, dishonest, selfish politician—be he who he may—no trimmer and truckler to the times—who will be forgotten.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 » by Various
  • He was no truckler to his proprietors, and anyhow, the man whom the word had encarnadined was only a colliery-owner.
  • Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions
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