TRADING JUSTICES. Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly.
TRADESMEN. Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves.
TRANSLATORS. Sellers of old mended shoes and boots,
between coblers and shoemakers.
TO TRANSMOGRAPHY, or TRANSMIGRIFY. To patch up
vamp, or alter.
TO TRANSNEAR. To come up with any body.
TRANTER. See CROCKER.
TRAP. To understand trap; to know one's own interest.
TRAP STICKS. Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
TRAPS. Constables and thief-takers. CANT.
TO TRAPAN. To inveigle, or ensnare.