TRIP. A short voyage or journey, a false step or stumble,
an error in the tongue, a bastard. She has made a trip;
she has had a bastard.
TRIPE. The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat
man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering
appellation for a fat man.
TO TROLL. To loiter or saunter about.
TROLLY LOLLY. Coarse lace once much in fashion.
TROLLOP. A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
TROOPER. You will die the death of a trooper's horse, that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular method of telling any one he will be hanged.
TROT. An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
TROTTERS. Feet. To shake one's trotters at Bilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes ball, i.e. the ball of fetters: fetters and stocks were anciently called the bilboes.
To TROUNCE. To punish by course of law.
TRUCK. To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel such as ship's guns are placed upon.