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November 17, 2003 11:57 PM | cunctator

TRUCKLE WELL

Yet another necessary verb to add to your lexicon:

    truck·le
  1. n. a small wheel or caster
  2. v.i. to roll along truckles
  3. v.i. to yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep (with to). [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.]
Usage: "Tony Blair is a sniveling, truckly pawn of the United States."