Hit is þe corsedest kyrk, þat euer I com inne.
ll. 2193-6.
Cleanness
In the poem called Cleanness, beginning with the parable of the Marriage Feast, occurs the word ‘trasches’:
For what vrþly haþel [man] þat hyȝ honour haldeȝ
Wolde lyke, if a ladde com lyþerly [badly] attyred.
...
With rent cokreȝ [gaiters] at þe kne & his clutte [clouted] trasches.
ll. 35-40.
The Glossary gives: ‘Trasches = trauses or trossers, ... trousers?’ and Stratmann’s Dictionary favours the same suggestion, but there is no longer any doubt that the word is correct as it stands, and that it is the same as the modern trash (w.Yks. Lan. Chs. Stf. Der.), an old worn-out boot, shoe, or slipper. The combination ‘cockers and trashes’ appears in Grose’s Provincial Glossary, 1790: ‘Cockers and Trashes. Old stockings without feet, and worn-out shoes. North.’ The next line of the poem runs: