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

The Cornet himself, though he sat up talking with the farmer for some time, at length turned into the truckle bed provided for him, and was soon as fast asleep as his men.

From Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow by Webb, Archibald

Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And at last they came upon the man they sought sleeping peacefully on a truckle bed.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George

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