TRUCKLE [\TRUHK-uhl\]
Intransitive Verb:
1.To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner.
Noun:
1.A small wheel or roller; a caster.
My Sentence:
The uneducated mass of native people in my home country of birth had no choice but to truckle to the lofty demands and cruelty of the Spaniards during its regime. They were told by the fake friars to look up to the sky and to close their eyes when they pray. The minute they opened their eyes, all their lands were gone. The fake heavens got them! That was the beginning of their tribulation called Oppression!
These fake friars are now substituted by rich landlords who continue to take advantage of their less literate peasants who truckle like blind obsequious servants to their cruel masters for their own survival.
Origin:
Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed (a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed), in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master. The ultimate source of the word is Greek trokhos, "a wheel."
Source: Online Dictionary
