Trot. An old trot; a decrepit old woman.
A dog trot; a
gentle pace.
Trotters. Feet. To shake one’s
trotters at Bilby’s ball,
where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps
the Bilboes
ball, i.e. the ball of fetters:
fetters and stocks were
anciently called the bilboes.
To trounce. To punish by course of law.
Truck. To exchange, swop, or barter; also
a wheel
such as ship’s guns are placed upon.
Trull. A soldier or a tinker’s trull;
a soldier or tinker’s
female companion.—Guteli, or
trulli, are spirits like women,
which shew great kindness to men, and
hereof it is
that we call light women trulls.
Randle Holm’s
academy of armory.
Trumpery. An old whore, or goods of no value; rubbish.
Trumpet. To sound one’s own trumpet;
to praise one’s
self.
Trumpeter. The king of Spain’s trumpeter;
a braying
ass. His trumpeter is dead, he is
therefore forced to
sound his own trumpet. He would make
an excellent
trumpeter, for he has a strong breath;
said of one having
a foetid breath.
Trumps. To be put to one’s trumps:
to be in difficulties,
or put to one’s shifts. Something
may turn up trumps;
something lucky may happen. All his
cards are trumps:
he is extremely fortunate.
TRUNDLERS. Peas.
Trunk. A nose. How fares your old trunk?
does your
nose still stand fast? an allusion to
the proboscis or trunk
of an elephant. To shove a trunk:
to introduce one’s
self unasked into any place or company.
Trunk-maker
like; more noise than work.
Trusty Trojan, or Trusty Trout. A true friend.
Try on. To endeavour. To live
by thieving. Coves who
try it on; professed thieves.
TRYNING. See TRINING.
Tu QUOQUE. The mother of all saints.
Tub thumper. A presbyterian parson.
Tucked up. Hanged. A tucker up
to an old bachelor or
widower; a supposed mistress.
Tuft hunter. A it anniversary parasite,
one who courts
the acquaintance of nobility, whose caps
are adorned with
a gold tuft.
Tumbler. A cart; also a sharper employed
to draw in
pigeons to game; likewise a posture-master,
or rope-dancer.
To shove the tumbler, or perhaps tumbril;
to-be
whipt at the cart’s tail.
To tune. To beat: his father tuned
him delightfully:
perhaps from fetching a tune out of the
person beaten, or
from a comparison with the disagreeable
sounds of instruments
when tuning.
To tup. To have carnal knowledge of a woman.


