An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 908
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 908
_To_ TRODDLE, _v. n._ To walk with short steps, as a little child does, Ang.
_Morison._
Germ. _trottel-n_, tarde et pigre incedere.
TRODWIDDIE, _s._ The chain that fastens the harrow to what are called the _Swingle-trees_, S. B.
Isl. _troda_, terra, and _vijd-er_, vimen; q. the _withe_ which touches the earth.
TROGGERS, _s. pl._ The designation given to one species of Irish vagrants, q. _trokers_, Wigton.
_Statist. Acc._
TROISTRY, _s._ The entrails of a beast, offals, S. B.
Isl. _tros_, trash, Sw. _trastyg_, trumpery.
TROYT, _s._ An inactive person, S. B.
Su. G. _tryt-a_, pigere, taedere; _troett_, fessus, la.s.sus.
_To_ TROKE, _v. a._
1. To bargain in the way of exchange, to barter, S. _truck_, E.
Fr. _troqu-er_, to exchange.
_Ferguson._
2. To do business on a small scale, S.
3. To be busy about little, in whatever way, S.
~Trock~, ~Troque~, _s._
1. Exchange, barter, S.
Fr. _troc_, id.
2. _Troques_, pl. small wares, S. B.
_Shirrefs._
3. Small pieces of business that require a good deal of stirring, S. B.
4. Familiar intercourse, S. B.
_Morison._
TROLY, TRAWLIE, _s._ A ring through which the _sowme_ pa.s.ses betwixt the two horses, or oxen, next the plough, Ang.
V. ~Sowme~.
Isl. _travale_, impedimentum; Teut. _traelie_, clathrus, a bar.
TROLOLLAY, _s._ A term which occurs in a rhyme used by young people, on the last day of the year, S.
It has been viewed as a corr. of Fr. _trois rois allois_, three kings are come.
TRONACH, _s._ The crupper used with a pack-saddle; formed of a piece of wood, connected with the saddle by a cord at each end; Mearns.
TRONE, _s._
1. An instrument, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar; used for weighing heavy wares, S.
_Stat. Dav. II._
L. B. _trona_, statera publica; Isl. _tra-na_, a crane; rostrum longiusculum.
2. The pillory, S.
_Acts Sed._
~Trone-weight~, _s._ The standard weight used at the _Trone_, S.
~Tronare~, _s._ The person who had the charge of the _Trone_. L. B.
_tronar-ius_.
_Stat. Dav. II._
~Trone-men~, _s._ Those who carry off the soot sweeped from chimneys; denominated from their station at the _Trone_, Edinburgh.
_To_ ~Trone~, _v. a._ To subject to the disgraceful punishment of the pillory.
_Kennedy._
TRONE, _s._ A throne.