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TRUCKLE
Definition of TRUCKLE
noun
A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
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Other senses
TRUCKLE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A small wheel or roller; a caster.
intransitive verb
To be servile or submissive. synonym: fawn.
noun
A wheel of a pulley; also, a pulley.
noun
Jabol, a truckle or pullie. … Moufle, a truckle for a pullie.
Where it comes from
From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRUCKLE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRUCKLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TRUCKLE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEKLRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of TRUCKLE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start TRUCKL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 17
Could you have found TRUCKLE?
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