truckle bed

Example Sentences

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Iris came back from the void to find herself lying on a truckle bed in a dimly-lighted hovel.

From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis

First, that he lie upon the truckle bed, Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

On this landing was a small truckle bed, on which Joe slept.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

"You have had a busy time of it in dreams, Master Weasel," said Dauntrees, since you laid yourself down on your truckle bed this morning.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

So he told his servants to put a mean truckle bed in the room in which Jack was to sleep, knowing that no noble would put up with such a thing.

From Europa's Fairy Book by Batten, John Dickson