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▪ I. trey, n.|treɪ|
Forms: 4–7 treye, 6– tray, 7 trye, 5– trey.
[a. OF. and AF. treis, trei, F. trois, dial. tray = Prov. treis, nom. trei, Sp. tres, It. tre:—L. trēs three.]
1. The three at dice or cards.
a. Dice. That side of the die that is marked with three pips or spots; a throw which turns up this side.
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 325 Seuene is my chaunce, and thyn is cynk and treye [Corpus, Lansd. fyue and þre]. c1450Bk. of Brome 17 Ȝowr cast wosse sysse and dobyll trey. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 232 Qu. Hony, and Milke, and Suger: there is three. Ber. Nay then two treyes,..Methegline, Wort, and Malmsey; well runne dice: There's halfe a dozen sweets. 1668Dryden Evening's Love iii. i, Two sixes and a trey wins it. 1772Foote Nabob ii. Wks. 1799 II. 301 Tray, ace, or two deuces. 1910Nation 1 Jan. 566/1 There's luck under the deuce but none under the tray.
b. Cards. That card of any suit which is marked with three spots. rare.
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester xv. (ed. 2) 93 The best Putt-Cards are first the Trey, next the Deuce. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 195 The trey presents us with the separation of a lover and his mistress. 1896J. K. Bangs House-boat on Styx v, I do not know a trey of diamonds from a silver salver.
†c. In proverbial phrase ere you can say trey-ace (see 3), of which treis, trayse appears to be a contracted form. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 142 Al sodeinliche, as who seith treis, Wher that he stod in his Paleis, He tok him fro the mennes sihte. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 8917 A man schuld not so sone say ‘trayse’, As he fel ded & held his payse. a1553Udall Royster D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 48 Bydde them high apace. M. Mery. I wyll be here with them ere ye can say trey ace.
2. slang. The number three, in various connexions; a set of three; a threepenny piece; spec. in the U.S., a three-dollar packet of a narcotic.
[1859Hotten Dict. Slang 204 Tray saltee, threepence..tre soldi.] 1887J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail i. 3 And he who ‘does a tray’ (serves three months' imprisonment) therein, borrows his word from our Gallican neighbours. 1896Vizetelly tr. Zola's Rome 372 Stake their luck on a cardinal, just as they nurse a ‘trey’ in the lottery. 1897Marshall Pomes 71 (Farmer) And the magistrate..left but very little doubt That the moons she'd have to do would be a tray. 1907Daily Chron. 26 July 4/7 One easily sees why it [threepence] is a ‘tray’. 1944D. Burley in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 214 A deuce or tray of haircuts ago. 1960‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick xiii. 98 ‘I know all about you. You did a tray on the moor.’.. ‘It wasn't a tray..it was only a stretch.’ 1967[see nickel bag s.v. nickel n. 3 a]. 1972J. Mills Report to Commissioner 98 She wants to buy two treys, $3 bags of heroin. He says he has treys, but wants $3.50 for them. 1977National Times (Austral.) 17 Jan. 11/3 Service of the kind just described is as rare these days as finding a trey in the Christmas pudding.
3. Comb. trey-ace, a throw that turns up trey with one die and ace with the other; so trey-deuce; trey-bit (freq. tray-bit) Austral. and N.Z. slang (now Hist.), a three-penny piece; also trey-piece; trey-point = sense 1; † trey-table, a dicing-table; † trey-trace, (?).
a1553*Trey ace [see 1 c]. 1725Ld. Stanhope in C'tess Suffolk's Lett. (1824) I. 186 Wishing you all imaginable success at Trey-ace, Commerce, or whatever else may be the prevailing diversion.
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Oct. 14, 3d. a ‘*traybit’. 1901Bulletin Reciter (Sydney) 181 Den I socked me bit upon 'er—Ev'ry tray-bit I could bring. 1937F. Sargeson in Tomorrow 17 Mar. 310/2, I upend them to collect the tray bits. 1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait xviii. 162 I'll bet my job against a trey bit you're right. 1977Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 1 May 16 When it comes to unique competitions the people of outback Winton reckon they're the full quid—and you can bet your last zac or traybit on it!
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester xxxiii. Hazzard (ed. 2) 122 Five [has] but two chances, Trey Ace and two Deuces, or *Trey Deuce and Quater Ace.
1899Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jan. (Red Page), We have here [sc. in Tauranga, N.Z.]..slang words for..3d.—thrum, half-tiz, tray, or *tray-piece.
1657C. Beck Univ. Char. L vij b, A *tray point on a die.
1646Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 249 There is also a bowling-place, a tavern, and a *trey-table.
1575R. B. Appius & Virg. B j, With hey tricke, how trowle, trey trip, and *trey trace.
▪ II. trey, tray, v.
[app. f. trey n.]
app. To divide or deal (a pack of cards) into three heaps in order to separate the suits (in the order of which new cards are or were packed), before shuffling in the usual way.
(This is the explanation given by the majority of those who answered a query as to this word in the Pall Mall Gazette of 5 Jan. 1914. Two of these, Mr. R. H. Macaulay, M.A., and Mr. C. B. Lacey, both resident in India in 1888, remember the word as there used in this sense. Several other explanations were suggested, e.g. that tray was for F. trier to pick out.)
1888Times 15 Feb. 8/2 The new packs were opened, and were ‘trayed’ and shuffled in the usual way. Dr. Sanders had one of the packs cut to him, and proceeded to deal. He turned up the Knave of Clubs, and on sorting his hand found that he had the other 12 trumps.
▪ III. trey
obs. Sc. f. tree.
▪ IV. trey, treye
see tray. |