truckle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRUCK'LE, noun A small wheel or caster. TRUCK'LE, verb intransitive [dim. of truck.] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. Small states must truckle to large ones. Religion itself is forced to truckle with worldly policy.
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