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▪ I. † trant, n. north. dial. Obs.
[Origin obscure.
Identical in form with Du. trant ‘manner, way, method, kind’, in MDu. also ‘step, pace’. It is conceivable that from some of these senses there might arise the notion of ‘shift, clever or cunning way or course, device, trick’ (cf. F. tour and Eng. turn), but historical links are wanting.]
Cunning action, trickery; a stratagem, a trick (always in an evil sense).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1700 Summe fel in þe fute, þer þe fox bade, Traylez ofte a trayteres [? a travers], bi traunt of her wyles. c1400Destr. Troy 12210 For to take hit [Troy] by treason & trantis of hym. c1440York Myst. xxix. 234 Þis was a trante of a traytour. c1460Towneley Myst. xvi. 235 Hard I neuer sich a trant that a knafe so slight Shuld com lyke a sant and refe me my right. Ibid. xxv. 162, I know his trantes fro top to tayll.
▪ II. † trant, v.1 Obs. rare—1.
[Goes with prec.]
intr. To practise cunning devices; to employ cunning, craft, trickery, or deception.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1707 [The fox] trantes & tornayeez þurȝ mony tene greue.
▪ III. trant, v.2 rare. Now dial.
Also 6 traunt.
[app. a back-formation from tranter; cf. peddle.]
intr. To follow the occupation of a tranter. Hence ˈtranting (ˈtraunting) ppl. a.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 145 Who..had some traunting merchant to his sire, That traffick'd both by water and by fire. 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 201 Naibour Sweatley..Who tranted and moved people's things.
▪ IV. trant(e
obs. form of trente (at Cards). |