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▪ I. trig, n.1|trɪg|
[Goes with trig v.1; the vb. being app. the source of the n.]
1. A wedge or block placed under a wheel or cask to prevent it from rolling; hence in a mine, a bar used as a brake for the wheel of a tram; also U.S., a brake-shoe, a skid; in extended use applied to any material, as hay or gravel, laid on a slide to check the motion of a sledge going over it. In quot. 1647 fig. Cf. trigger n.2
Its fig. use in quot. 1647 points to an earlier literal use: see also trig v.1
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xvi. 62 Nor is his suite in danger to be stopt, Or with the trigges of long demurrers propt. 1830Seba Smith Major J. Downing (1860) 72 I've seen the wheels chocked with a little trig not bigger than a cat's head. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Trig, a wedge or block to prop up a cask, or to stop a wheel. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Trig, a sprag used for stopping or putting the brake on trams, wagons, &c. 1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 68 Trig, a piece of wood laid in front of a waggon wheel to stop its motion.
†2. Thieves' slang. See quot. Obs. (perh. a different word, or ? belonging to trig n.2).
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Trig, a bit of stick, paper, &c., placed by thieves in the keyhole of..the door of a house, which they suspect to be uninhabited; if the trig remains unmoved the following day, it is a proof that no person sleeps in the house. This..is called trigging the jigger.
▪ II. trig, n.2 Now dial. and in workmen's speech.
Also 7 trigg.
[Goes with trig v.2, of obscure origin.]
A line traced, cut, or marked out on the ground, as a boundary or centre line, a guide for a cutting, etc.; the line or score at which a player at bowls, quoits, curling, etc. stands, or from which runners start in a race; hence to foot or toe the trig (see toe v. 2); also dial. a shallow trench, gutter, or small ditch, a narrow path or track (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1648Davenant Long Vac. in Lond. 98 Now Alderman in field does stand, With foot on Trig, a Quoit in hand. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 70/1 The Trigg is the place or mark on which the players are to set one foot, or foot the Trigg, when they deliuer their Bowles. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 3), Trig, the point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the bowl. 1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 22/1 He is also..to preserve the centre or trig line, especially in curves. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss., Trig, the starting line in a race, which may be either a stretched cord, a stick, a post, or an imaginary boundary. 1895E. Anglia Gloss., Trig, (2) The mark from which a ball is delivered.
▪ III. trig, n.3 dial. or colloq.
[f. trig v.3]
A trot, a hurried walk; a tramp on foot, a trip.
1884Holland Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) s.v., He's allus uppo th' trig (always in a hurry). 1888Blackw. Mag. Sept. 392 The goings on of himself and his comrade on the ‘great trig’ in the wilds of the Scotch Highlands.
attrib. Ibid. 396 Nothing remained but to declare the ‘trig’ field season at an end.
▪ IV. trig, a.1 (n.4)|trɪg|
Forms: 2–7 trigg, 6 (Sc.) tryg, 7 trigge, 5– trig.
[a. ON. tryggr faithful, trusty, trustworthy, secure (Norw., Sw. trygg, Da. tryg secure, safe, sure); = Gothic triggws true, faithful: see true. Orig. northern Eng. and Sc.; in general literary use in 19th c.]
(The sense development between 1200 and 1500 is not very clear, and the order of senses given is mainly chronological; perhaps sense 4 ought to stand before 3. Cf. the note to trim a., which is to a great extent applicable also to trig.)
I.
1. True, faithful; trustworthy, trusty. Now only north. dial.
c1200Ormin 6177 Þin laferrd birrþ þe buhsumm beon & hold & trigg & trowwe. 1818T. Thompson Canny Newcassel in Midford, etc. Coll. Songs (1819) 8 For Geordy aw'd dee,—for my loyalty's trig. 1829Brockett N.C. Words, Trig, true, faithful. 1893–4Northumb. Gloss., Trig, neat, spruce, true, reliable.
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†2. Active, nimble, brisk, sprightly, alert. Sc.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. vii. (Lion & Mouse) i, Ane trip of myis..Richt tait and trig, all dansand in ane gyis. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 184 Litill lammis Full tait and trig socht bletand to thar dammis. 1724Ramsay Eagle & Robin 23 A tunefull Robin trig and ȝung.
3. Trim or tight in person, shape, or appearance; of a place, Neat, tidy, in good order. Chiefly Sc. and dial.
1513Douglas æneis ix. x. 89 The beste sal be full tydy, tryg, and wycht. 1697R. Pierce Bath Mem. i. iv. 71 Her..Foot and Leg [were] as shapely, strong, and trigge. Ibid. vi. 107, I, by chance, met her trigg and lusty, in the Market-Street. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiv, And it's like some o' them will be sent back to fling the earth into the hole, and mak a' things trig again. 1821Galt Ayrsh. Legatees x, The wonted ornaments of every trig change-house kitchen. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxviii, A damsel so trig and neat that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 126 My Sandie was the triggest lad That ever made a lassie glad. 1889Scribner's Mag. Aug. 168/1 Bait is a dirty substitute for the trig fly.
b. Trim or neat in dress; smartly-dressed; spruce, smart, well-dressed.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Few gang trigger to the kirk or fair. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr., etc. II. 96 Trig as new pins, and tight's the day was long. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Trig, neat, trim; or rather tricked out, or what is called fine. 1873Howells Chance Acquaint. iv, The trig corporal, with the little visorless cap worn so jauntily. 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 541 The stylish gait and air of the trig little body who wore them. 1893‘J. S. Winter’ Aunt Johnnie II. 181 She really looked very smart and trig and jaunty.
4. In good physical condition; strong, sound, well; also, firm, steady; in quot. a 1722, advb.
1704Locke Let. to Churchill 27 June, in Fox Bourne Life (1876) II. 546, I hope..that I may congratulate your safe return, strong and trig as you were before. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 270 A man will keep so much the greater awe over [oxen when ploughing], and will make them go trig. 1847–78Halliwell, Trig, (5) well in health. West. (6) sound and firm. Dorset. 1858Brit. Q. Rev. LVI. 548 Those noble [Greek and Roman] youths..sitting on the bare backs of their chargers, and guiding them with their hands;..they do not sit badly considering they have not the advantages..of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig. 1890A. E. Barr Olivia xvii. 351, I wish I was in mid-ocean all trig and tight. Then I would enjoy such a passion of wind.
5. Prim, precise, exact; in depreciative use: Cut and dried, smug. rare.
1793J. Pearson Political Dict. 38 Trig and demure, the [girl] comes back. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. viii, A certain trig and quaint appearance given by his tight dark⁓colored small-clothes. 1868Tuckerman Collector 74 A trig nurse, with Saxon ringlets, dragging a petulant urchin. 1872H. W. Beecher in Chr. World Pulpit II. 341 Our system of trig and prig theology. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 137 A little man, smooth, and close-shaven, very trig, and smug.
6. Full, distended, stuffed to the utmost, ‘tight’. north. dial.
1811Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S.), Trig,..full, distended. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Trig a., full. 1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Cumbld., Yorksh., Lincolnsh. Ibid. (N. Lincoln), ‘Thoo mon't shuv no moore i'to that bag, it's oher trig noo’.
†B. n.4 A trim, spruce fellow; a dandy, a coxcomb. Obs.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. vii, You are a Pimpe, and a Trig, And an Amadis de Gaule, or a Don Quixote.
Hence ˈtrigly adv., ˈtrigness.
1728Ramsay Lure 40 What fowl is that,..that stands sae trigly on your hand? 1821Galt Ann. Parish ii. 29 The lassies, who had been at Nanse Banks's school, were always well spoken of..for..the trigness of their houses, when they were..married. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. ii. (1856) 18 Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. 1896J. Tweeddale Moff i. 14 Fields were subdivided by trigly cut hedges.
▪ V. trig, a.2 and n.5
Colloq. abbrev. of trigonometrical a., trigonometry. Freq. as trig point, trig station.
1862McLean Papers (MS.) XX. 87 Mr Swainson informs me that the Trig Station pulled down was not one erected by him. 1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Trig. n., trigonometry. 1924P. Marks Plastic Age 36 Kane announced the textbook, and when Hugh caught the word ‘trigonometry’ he actually thrilled with joy. He had had trig in high school. 1926J. Devanny Lenore Divine xx. 184 They reached the trig station at the top, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level. 1936H. S. L. Winterbotham Key to Maps iii. 28 On the ordnance maps and plans you will find..little triangles with dots inside... Each one represents a place fixed by careful instrumental measurement, and the sum total represents the skeleton..upon which all our maps depend... ‘Trig. Points’, represented by the triangles, control the map in plan, ‘Bench-marks’ in height. 1959J. Braine Vodi vi. 92 I've not done those trig. problems. 1968G. R. Crone Maps & their Makers xi. 143 Transference of the trig. points to the sheets issued to the plane tablers. 1976J. Lee Ninth Man i. 48 Andy flunked trig for the second time (damn higher mathematics, anyway). 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 577/1 Surveyors had to be trained [for Ordnance Survey mapmaking]; trig-points and bench⁓marks established.
▪ VI. trig, v.1
Inflected trigged, -ing.
[Etymology uncertain: perhaps ad. ON. tryggja, ODa. trygge to make firm or secure, from tryggr firm, sure, true.
This derivation fairly suits the sense; the difficulty being that to trig (in this sense) is not a northern or Sc. word, but is at home in dialects south of the Thames, which makes a Norse origin unlikely.]
1. trans. To make firm or fast; to prevent from moving; esp. to apply a wedge, block, or the like, to (a wheel) in order to stop or retard its motion.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Calzar, to shoo. Calceare, to trig a wheele [mod.Sp. Dict., calzar, to shoe..to stop a wheel]. 1651Cartwright Poems (Nares), Times wheels are trig'd, and brib'd to make a stand. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 155 With free Chariot, fat Damasippus hurries; he, (He! even the consul) triggs the wheel. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3) s.v. Trigger, An Iron to Trig or Stay a Wheel. 1802in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. VI. 235 Our friend Haterius should be trigged like a cart-wheel on an inclined plane. 1830Seba Smith Major J. Downing (1860) 72 They make pesky bad work, trigging the wheels of Government. 1845S. Judd Margaret iii. (1871) 397, I stand ready to trig the wheels in all the steep places.
2. To support or shore up with a wedge; to wedge up; to prop. Often with up.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 26 Shores, which ought to be placed on Timber Foundations, called Sholes, and well nog'd or trig'd. 1883Baring-Gould J. Herring xiv, She made him raise the hearthstone, and trig it up with a piece of granite. 1899― Bk. West xvii, To prevent the springs being broken..the axle-trees had been ‘trigged up’ below with blocks of wood.
†3. Thieves' slang. See trig n.1 2. Obs.
Hence ˈtrigging vbl. n.
1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 148 The wheels being oiled with delight, run nimbly, and have often need of trigging. 1682― Fear vi. 78 Our thoughts run nimbly..like oyled wheels, and have need of trigging.
▪ VII. trig, v.2 dial.
Inflected trigged, -ing.
[Goes with trig n.2: origin of both obscure.
(As Du. trekker has become in Eng. trigger, it is conceivable that Du. trekken ‘to draw a line’ might become trig; but nothing corroborative of such an origin has been found.)]
trans. To make a score on (the ground) for a player at bowls, quoits, etc., to stand at; also, to mark out (ground) with a line or shallow trench. trig out, to mark out or trace, as a boundary line. Also absol.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trig,..to set a mark to stand at, in playing at Nine-pins. 1727Bailey vol. II, Trigged, having a Mark set to stand in playing at Nine Pins. 1843[implied in trigger n.3]. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Trig,..to make shallow furrows, or trigs, as between seed-beds for onions, carrots, etc.—‘I trigged the ground afore I put the seed in’. 1893H. Pease Borderland Stud. 36 Gravely he consulted with his ‘marrow’ (mate) who ‘trigged’ for him.., carefully noted the indicated line. a1905MS. Gloss. (Warwick) in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Trig v.1, Plots of ground let for building are trigged out, i.e. the boundaries are marked by cutting a small trench in them. 1914H. F. Rutter (M. Inst. C.E.) in Let., I have been asked scores of times by a ganger [over navvies] ‘Could you come and trig out the centre line for us, Sir?’
▪ VIII. trig, v.3 Now dial.
Also 6 trigge, 7 trigg; infl. trigg-.
[Origin unknown.]
intr. To trot; to walk quickly or briskly; to trip; also to trig it; spec. (slang) see quot. 1796; also trans. or with advb. acc., as in to trig the country, to tramp; to trig (a distance).
1599Nashe Lenten Stuff 49 Away to the landes ende they trigge. 1647Trapp Comm. 2 Thess. i. 3 How oft are we sitting down on earth,..till affliction call to us, as the angel to Elijah, ‘Up, thou hast a great way to go’, and then we trigg. a1652A. Wilson Inconstant Lady ii. i, Hee triggs it to Romilia's. a1680T. Goodwin Blessed State xii. Wks. 1703 V. iii. 83 His Servant..(who must presently, without more ado, trig and Foot it after his Master). 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 66 She..Trig'd away Hand in Hand with the Gentleman. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 3), To trig it, to play truant. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Trig, to trot gently; or trip as a child does after its nurse. ‘They trigged off together’. 1872Hartley Yorksh. Ditties Ser. ii. 72 Mony a mile he had to trig One sweltin' summer day. 1891B. Gregory in Wesl. Meth. Mag. 56 A travelling tailor, having ‘trigged the country’ in search of work as far as ‘Newrak’.
▪ IX. trig, v.4 Now dial.
Infl. trigg-.
[f. trig a.1 3, 6; with both senses cf. tight v.3]
I.
1. trans. To make trig or trim, to trim, to make tidy or neat; now often, to dress smartly or finely. trig out, to dress or deck out. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial. Hence ˈtrigging vbl. n., the action of the verb; concr. finery.
1696Song, ‘This is no my ain House’ i, Sin' ho claimed my daddy's place I downa bide the triggin o't. 1724Ramsay ‘This is no my ain house’ i, Mine ain house I'll like to guide, And please me with the trigging o't. 1793Ritson N. Garland (1809) 71 He rigg'd and trigg'd, and rid away. 1877R. W. Thom Jock o' Knowe 54 Beauty..shines divine when seen Trigged oot in love and charity. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, Rhyme Three Sealers 62 He has rigged and trigged her with paint and spar. 1897W. Beatty Secretar xxx. 243 (Fifeshire) She had gotten me into her room to see that I was trigged out as I should be.
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2. trans. To fill full, to stuff, cram. (Cf. to fill ‘tight’.)
1660H. More Myst. Godl. iv. iii. 105 By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 15 May, O Molly! the sarvants at Bath..lite the candle at both ends. Here's nothing but ginketting, and wasting, and thieving, and tricking, and trigging. 1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Supp., Trig thy kite, fill thy belly. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Trig, to fill, to stuff. 1828Craven Gloss. s.v., ‘He's trigg'd his hamper;’ that is, he has filled his belly. 1905in E. Dial. Dict. from Cumbld., Westmld., Durham, Yorksh. |