truckles

Also packed in the hold were some truckles of Cheddar cheese, Sheppy's Cider, Smiles Ales and Bath Oliver biscuits.

Bristol's wine trade 2007

Also packed in the hold were some truckles of Cheddar cheese, Sheppy's Cider, Smiles Ales and Bath Oliver biscuits.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

Her husband hates her mortally; but, although the brute is sometimes so very powerful in him that he will have his own way, he generally truckles to her dominion, and dreads, like a school-boy, the lash of her tongue.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

A _Truckle-bed_, is a small bed placed upon truckles, so that it may be readily moved about.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

When a man truckles to him he is angry at his insincerity; when the other disputes his statements, or even offers other views, he finds himself confronted by one who has taken deep offense.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become a corporation lawyer, seeks to aid his clients by denouncing as enemies of property all those who seek to stop the abuses of the criminal rich; such a man performs an even worse service to the body politic than the Legislator or Executive who goes wrong.

XII. The Big Stick and the Square Deal 1913

A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become a corporation lawyer, seeks to aid his clients by denouncing as enemies of property all those who seek to stop the abuses of the criminal rich; such a man performs an even worse service to the body politic than the Legislator or Executive who goes wrong.

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

But he knows that if he truckles to the Curse of Versatility,

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

A judge who on the bench either truckles to the mob or bows down before a corporation; or who, having left the bench to become

Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Connoway fought many a losing fight that his small citizens might wriggle with delight on their truckles.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887