Twin Time-takings.
The Hinge Time-taking, on which the other hangs, and the Hank Time-taking which hangs on the Hinge one, as ‘If ye ask (hinge), ye shall receive (hank).’
There are sundry kinds of hinge time-takings, as one or the other or both of the time-takings may or may not be trowed or true or sure.
(1) Hinge and hank, trowed—‘As ye ask (as I trow you do), so ye receive (I trow).’
(2) Hinge, untrowed; hank, trowed—‘If ye ask (I trow not whether ye will or no), then ye will receive (I trow).’
The hinge-word put down as trowedly untrue, and the hank one trowed, as ‘If ye asked (as I trow you do not), ye would receive (I trow)’; or ‘If ye had asked (ye have not), ye would have received (I trow).’
The hinge time-taking trowed, and the other untrowed, as ‘Ye ask (I trow), that ye may receive (I trow not that ye will).’
Speech-trimming.
The putting of speech into trim; trim being a truly good form or state. To trim a shrub, a bonnet, or a boat, is to put it into trim.