TRUNK-WEAM. A fiddle.
TRUNLIN. A large coal. North.
TRUNNLE. The same as Trendle, q. v.
TRUNTLEMENT. Trumpery. North.
TRUPHILLE. A trifle.
TRUSH. (1) A hassock. Kent.
(2) To trush about, to litter.
(3) To run about in the dirt. North.
TRUSLE. (1) Trust. Weber.
(2) To wrap up; to get ready.
TRUSS. (1) A padded jacket worn under the armour to protect the skin.
(2) To tie the points of hose. To truss up, to tuck up the gown, &c.
(3) The baggage of an army.
(4) To pack up. Hence, to make ready. And trusse al that he mithen fynde Of hise, in arke, or in kiste.
Havelok, 2018.
(5) A boy's game, like leap-frog.
(6) Truss up, to hang a person.
TRUSSEL. (1) A pack, or bundle.
(2) A stand for a barrel. Kent.
TRUSSES. The same as Trowses, q. v.
TRUSSING. In falconry, is a hawk's raising any fowl or prey aloft; soaring up, and then descending with it to the ground.
TRUSSING-BASKET. A basket used for conveying large parcels of goods. Called also a trussing-coffer.
TRUSSING-BED. A travelling bed. "Trussyng bedde, lit de champ," Palsgrave.
Also my large bed of black velvet, embroidered with a circle of fetter-locks, and garters, all the beds made for my body called in England trussing-beds.
Test. Vetust. p. 141.
TRUT. (1) Stercus. Hearne.
(2) The cry of hunters returning home after the sport is finished.
TRUTHY. Faithful; veracious. East.
TRY. (1) To fare. Somerset.
(2) A corn screen. Also, to screen.
(3) To boil down lard. East.
(4) How de try, how do you do? Exm.
(5) A club tipped with iron.
TRYALYTES. Three benefices united.
TRYERS.
And shew'd themselves as errant lyars, As th' were 'prentice to the tryers.
Brome's Songs, 1661, p. 167.
TRYSTI. Trusty; secure.
On trysti roche heo stondeth fast, And wyth depe dyche buth all be cast.
Religious Poems, xv. Cent.
TRYVE. To drive.
In chastlynyge hath made a rod To tryve awey hire wantnesse.
Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 111.
TU. To work hard. North.
TUARN. The place in an iron furnace which receives the metal. Staff.
TUAY. Two.
From arnemorwe to the midday, He hadde strengthe of knightses tuay.
Arthour and Merlin, p. 178.
TUB. (1) Tale of a tub, a stupid nonsensical story.
(2) The top of a malt-kiln. Essex.
(3) The gurnet. Cornw.
(4) One mode of curing the lues venerea was by the tub, the patient sweating for a considerable time in a heated tub. This mode is often alluded to by early writers.
TUBBAN. A clod of earth. Cornw.
TUBBER. A cooper. North.
TUBBLE. A mattock. Devon.
TUB-IRON. An iron placed in front of a smith's fire-place, having a hole through which the spout of the bellows is put.
TUBLE. Earthenware. West.
TU-BRUGGE. A drawbridge.
TUCK. (1) To eat. Also, an appetite.
(2) A short pinafore. East.
(3) To smart with pain. Wilts. In Devonshire, to pinch severely.
(4) A slap. Devon.
(5) A horizontal fold made in a garment to accommodate it to the height of a growing person.
(6) To touch. Somerset.
(7) A rapier. Still in use.
(8) To chuck. Cornw.
TUCKER. (1) A fuller. West.
(2) The same as Pinner, q. v.
TUCKER-IN. A chambermaid. West.
TUCKET. A slight flourish on a trumpet.
TUCKING. A bag used for carrying beans in when setting them. Glouc.
TUCKING-GIRDLE. "Tuckyng kyrdell, sanciture decourser," Palsgrave.
TUCKS. Iron pins in the frame of a timber-tug to prevent the timber slipping off.
TUCKSHELLS. Tusks. Sussex.
TUE. (1) To rumple. North.
(2) The same as Tew, q. v.
TUEL. (1) A towel. West.
(2) The fundament. See Tewel.
(3) A vexatious meddling. North.
TUEN. To go.
Ant alle the other that mine buen, Shule to blisse with me tuen.
Harrowing of Hell, p. 29.
TUFF. (1) A Turkish turban.
(2) A tassel. Also, to ornament with tassels.
(3) A lock of wool.
(4) To spit or hiss, as a cat.
TUFFOLD. A small outhouse. Yorksh.
TUFT. A grove, or plantation.
TUFT-HUNTER. A hanger-on to noblemen and persons of quality.
TUFT-MOCKADO. A mixed stuff made to imitate tufted taffeta, or velvet.
TUFT-TAFFATY. A taffaty tufted, or left with a nap on it, like velvet.
Sleeveless his jerkin was, and it had been Velvet, but 'twas now (so much ground was seen) Become tufftaffaty; and our children shall See it plain rash a while, then nought at all.
Donne's Poems, p. 129.
TUG. (1) A contest. Var. dial.
(2) A timber-carriage. Sussex.
(3) To rob; to spoil. North.
(4) A difficult undertaking. West.