Traps. Constables and thief-takers. Cant.
To trapan. To inveigle, or ensnare.
Trapes. A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
Traveller. To tip the traveller; to tell
wonderful
stories, to romance.
Travelling piquet. A mode of amusing
themselves,
practised by two persons riding in a carriage,
each
reckoning towards his game the persons
or animals that pass
by on the side next them, according to
the following
estimation:
A parson riding a grey horse, witholue
furniture; game.
An old woman under a hedge; ditto.
A cat looking out of a window; 60.
A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40.
A man with a woman behind him; 30.
A flock of sheep; 20.
A flock of geese; 10.
A post chaise; 5.
A horseman; 2.
A man or woman walking; 1.
Tray trip. An ancient game like Scotch
hop, played on
a pavement marked out with chalk into
different
compartments.
Trencher cap. The square cap worn by
the collegians.
at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Trencher man. A stout trencher man;
one who has a
good appetite, or, as the term is, plays
a good knife and
fork.
TRESWINS. Threepence.
Trib. A prison: perhaps from tribulation.
Trickum legis. A quirk or quibble in the law.
Trig. The point at which schoolboys stand
to shoot their
marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers
deliver the
bowl.
To trig it. To play truant.
To lay a man trigging; to
knock him down.
TRIGRYMATE. An idle female companion.
Trim. State, dress. In a sad trim;
dirty.—Also spruce or
fine: a trim fellow.
Trim Tram. Like master, like man.
Trimming. Cheating, changing side, or beating.
I’ll
trim his jacket; I’ll thresh him.
To be trimmed; to be
shaved; I’ll just step and get trimmed.
Trine. To hang; also Tyburn.
TRINGUM TRANGUM. A whim, or maggot.
TRINING. Hanging.
Trinkets. Toys, bawbles, or nicknacks.
Trip. A short voyage or journey, a false
step or stumble,
an error in the tongue, a bastard.
She has made a trip;
she has had a bastard.
Tripe. The belly, or guts. Mr. Double
Tripe; a fat
man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails:
also a jeering
appellation for a fat man.
To Troll. To loiter or saunter about.
Trolly lolly. Coarse lace once much in fashion.
Trollop. A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
Trooper. You will die the death of a trooper’s
horse,
that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular
method of telling
any one he will be hanged.


