TRAPES. A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
TRAVELLER. To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful stories, to romance.
TRAVELLING PIQUET. A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation:
A parson riding a grey horse, without furniture; game.
An old woman under a hedge; ditto.
A cat looking out of a window; 60.
A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40.
A man with a woman behind him; 30.
A flock of sheep; 20.
A flock of geese; 10.
A post chaise; 5.
A horseman; 2.
A man or woman walking; 1.
TRAY TRIP. An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.
TRENCHER CAP. The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
TRENCHER MAN. A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.
TRESWINS. Threepence.
TRIB. A prison: perhaps from tribulation.
TRICKUM LEGIS. A quirk or quibble in the law.