truckle

noun

A small wheel or roller; a caster.

intransitive verb

To be servile or submissive. synonym: fawn.

noun

A wheel of a pulley; also, a pulley.

noun

Jabol, a truckle or pullie. … Moufle, a truckle for a pullie.

noun

A small wheel or caster.

noun

A small flat cheese.

noun

A truckle-bed.

To move on rollers or casters; trundle.

To sleep in a truckle-bed. See truckle, n., 4, and truckle-bed.

Hence To be tamely subordinate, as a pupil to his tutor, or a servant to his master; yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; submit; cringe; act in a servile manner: usually with to or under.