Truckle \Truc"kle\, v. i. [From truckle in truckle-bed, in
allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil
slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.]
To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to
submit; to creep. ``Small, trucking states.'' --Burke.
Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey.
--Norris.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |