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▪ I. † trevally1 Obs. or dial.
Forms: 7 trevall, (travailler), travalley, 7–8 travally, 7, 9 dial. trevally.
[perh. a corruption of reveille.]
1. A signal made by beating the drum; also attrib., trevally-beat. Also transf.
1645R. Symonds Diary Civ. War (Camden) 224 When the trevall was beate, and they lett downe their bridge for their scouts. 1675Crowne Country Wit ii. i, Beat a Travalley on the drums of their ears. 1685B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. II. iv. 10 We heard..a small arm discharged, and after that a drum beating a Travailler. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 154/2 The seuerall Beates or points of warre are these..14 A Revally, or Trevally, and ruvalley. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 144 The next Morning I..Landed presently after Travally-Beat. 1798O'Keeffe Highland Reel i. ii, Your rattan would be the drumstick of the corps, to beat the travally on my back—row-dy-dow!
2. A disturbance, a noisy ‘to-do’.
1819St. Patrick I. 162 (Jam.) Gin ye could airt me tae ane o' them [runnigates], we wad let you see a fine trevallie. 1866Kennedy Irish Celts 19 (E.D.D.) There was such a thravally ruz..about it. 1881Cumberland Gloss., Trevally, disturbance, quarrelling.
▪ II. ‖ treˈvally2
Also -valley, -valli, -valla, travalley, -vale.
[Supposed to be an alteration of cavally.]
A name applied in Australasia to several sea-fishes, mostly of the family Carangidæ or Horse-Mackerels.
Six species of Caranx, Neptonemus, and Teuthis, to which the name is applied, are enumerated by Morris Austral English.
1883E. P. Ramsay Food-Fishes N.S. Wales 20 The white trevally, Caranx georgianus,..on the New South Wales coast..seldom..weighing over 1½ to 2 lbs., is found on the shores of Queensland of a much greater size. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 184 The Collection also contains..the..‘Trevalley’. 1886R. A. A. Sherrin Fishes of New Zeal. 99 Dr. Hector says: ‘The trevalli is the arara of the Maoris, or the trevalli or cavalli of the fishermen... The fish known as trevalli in the Dunedin district is a different fish.’ 1890Victorian Statutes, Fisheries Act, Schedule 2, Travale. |