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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRUCKLE , 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 See also:

bed," a small bed on wheels which could be pushed under a large one. In See also:early times servants or See also:children slept in such beds, placed at the See also:foot of their masters' and parents' bed, but the name first appears as a university word, and was derived See also:direct from Latin trochlea, a See also:wheel or See also:pulley-See also:block, See also:Greek Tpoxos, wheel (rpEXeiv, to run).

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