An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 902

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 902

TRAKIT, _part. pa._ Much fatigued.


V. ~Traik~.


TRAM, _s._


1. The shaft of a cart or carriage of any kind, S.


_Dunbar._


Su. G. _traam_, that part of a tree, which is cut into different portions.


2. A beam or bar.


_Spalding._


3. In a ludicrous sense, the leg or limb; as, _lang trams_, long limbs, S.


TRAMALT NET, corr. from E. _trammel_.


_Lyndsay._


TRAMORT, _s._ A corpse.


_Dunbar._


Su. G. _tra_, to consume, _mort_, dead.


_To_ TRAMP, _v. a._


1. To tread with force, S.


_Lyndsay._


Sw. _trampa pa_, conculcare.


2. To tread, in reference to walking, S.


_Ferguson._


_To_ ~Tramp~, _v. n._


1. To tread with a heavy step, S.


Su. G. _tramp-a_, id.


2. To walk; as opposed to any other mode of travelling, S.


_Pop. Ball._


~Tramp~, _s._


1. The act of striking the foot suddenly downwards, S.


2. An excursion, properly a pedestrian one. S.


_Burns._


TRANCE, TRANSE, _s._


1. A pa.s.sage within a house, S.


_Sir J. Sinclair._


2. Used metaph. in relation to death.


_Rutherford._


_To_ TRANE, _v. n._ To travel.


_Burel._


Su. G. _tren-a_, incedere, gressus facere.


_To_ TRANONT, TRANOYNT, TRANOWNT, TRANENT, TRAWYNT, _v. n._


1. To march suddenly in a clandestine manner.


_Barbour._


2. To march quickly, without including the idea of stratagem or secrecy.


_Wallace._


3. To return, to turn back.


_Pal. Hon._


Fr. _traine_, a snare, an ambush.


~Tranowintyn~, _s._ A stratagem of war.