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.

_s.h.i.+rrefs._

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.