He Trulla loved, Trulla more bright
Than burnished armor of her knight,
A bold virago, stout and tall
As Joan of France or English Mall.
S. Butler, Hudibras, i. 2 (1663).
Trul´liber (Parson), a fat clergyman; ignorant, selfish, and slothful.--Fielding, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742).
Parson Barnabas, Parson Trulliber, Sir Wilful Witwould, Sir Francis Wronghead, Squire Western, Squire Sullen; such were the people who composed the main strength of the Tory party for sixty years after the Revolution.--Macaulay.
⁂ “Sir Wilful Witwould,” in The Way of the World, by Congreve; “Sir Francis Wronghead,” in The Provoked Husband, by C. Cibber; “Squire Western,” in Tom Jones, by Fielding; “Squire Sullen,” in The Beaux’ Stratagem, by Farquhar.
Trunnion (Commodore Hawser), a one-eyed naval veteran, who has retired from the service in consequence of injuries received in engagements; but he still keeps garrison in his own house, which is defended with drawbridge and ditch. He sleeps in a hammock, and makes his servants sleep in hammocks, as on board ship, takes his turn on watch, and indulges his naval tastes in various other ways. Lieutenant Jack Hatchway is his companion. When he went to be married, he rode on a hunter which he steered like a ship, according to the compass, tacking about, that he might not “go right in the wind’s eye.”--T. Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1750).
It is vain to criticize the manœuvre of Trunnion, tacking his way to church on his wedding day, in consequence of a head wind.--Encyc. Brit., Art. “Romance.”