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▪ I. trinket, n.1|ˈtrɪŋkɪt|
Also 6 tryn-, trinkett(e, 7 trinckett.
[Origin uncertain; has the form of a diminutive in -et1.
From the similarity of form, it has been suggested that this is the same word as trenket or trynket, a small knife, spec. a shoemaker's knife. But to such a transition of sense the general sense-history of the word from 1533 offers no confirmation. Another suggestion, supported by other words with trink- for trick-, is that this may be in some way related to trick n. or v.; cf. esp. trick n. 6 b; but here also evidence is wanting. Godefroy has a single instance of OF. tryncle, 1474, evidently denoting a piece of jewellery: cf. sense 2.]
†1.
a. Any small article forming part of an outfit; usually pl. the tools, implements, or tackle of an occupation; paraphernalia, accoutrements, ‘traps’.
a1536Calisto & Mel. A vj, I haue..sene her trynkettes For payntyng thynges inumerable Squalmys & balmys. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 114 b, A conjuror..had all his trynkettes and furniture concerning suche matters in a redinesse. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 36 Husbandlie furniture [in the stable]..A line to fetch litter, and halters for hed, With crotchis and pinnes, to hang trinkets ther⁓on, And stable fast chained, that nothing be gon. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 49 Cheese, fagots, pots, pannes, candles, and a thousand other trinkets besides. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 62 The poorer sort of common souldiers haue euery man his leather bag or sachell well sowen together, wherin he packs vp all his trinkets. 1606S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 48 Sundrie and many are the trinkets that belong to fishing. 1693Dryden Juvenal's Sat. vi. 212 Pack up with all your Trinkets, and away. 1787W. Taylor Poems 67, I' se gie her..A rock an' reel, pot, pan, an' wheel, An' mony mae usefu' trinkets.
†b. Applied to articles of food: A sweet, a dainty trifle. Obs.
1587Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 158, xij lbs of synnamount comffettes 20/-. For banketinges disshes, as socatte and sewgar trinkettes, 10/-. 1822Scott Nigel xxiii, Let Tim send the ale..with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket.
2. A small ornament or fancy article, usually an article of jewellery for personal adornment.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. Let. v. (1535) Ff ij, But I wold wyt..what goodly trinkettes ye hope to were in the straytnes of the Sepulchre. 1577Harrison England ii. vii. (1877) i. 168 To receiue some other trinket newlie deuised by the fickle headed tailors. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vii. 37 b, They were many chaines, tablets, and other trynkets of gold. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 89 The weight of the trinkets they [Lapp women] carry about them doth commonly weigh twenty pound. 1713Gay Fan i. 115 Each trinket that adorns the modern dame, First to these little artists ow'd its frame. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. iv, Trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 396 The tortoise-shell of which such a variety of beautiful trinkets are made. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 473 Half as much as he proposed to expend in covering his wife with trinkets. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. i. 14 Down to the giving of trinkets and ribbons, he was not forgetful.
†3. fig. Applied esp. to the decorations of worship, and to religious rites, ceremonies, beliefs, etc. which the speaker thinks vain or trivial. Obs.
1538London in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 224, I have pullyd down the image of your lady..with all trynkettes abowt the same, as schrowdes, candels, images of wexe, crowches, and brochys. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Col. i. 1 Iewishnes and supersticious Philosophie..supersticiously also honouryng the Sunne, the Moone, and starres, with suche other smal trinkettes of this worlde. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1625) 50 Then they invented purgatory, masses, prayers for the dead, and then all their Trinkets. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist ii. ii. §20 The Administration of that Sacrament was not loaded with those Superstitious Ceremonies..of Crossing, Spittle, Oyl, Cream, Salt, and such like Trinkets.
4. attrib. and Comb., as trinket-box, trinket-case, trinket-maker.
1809Malkin Gil Blas ix. i. (Rtldg.) 309 A goldsmith's daughter! exclaimed I..Can you think of tying me up to a trinket-maker? 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park II. viii. 186 You would be..welcome to any other in my trinket-box. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Sutherl. I. 142 Repeating the question about Grace's trinket-box. 1841Mrs. Mozley Lost Brooch II. xv. 109 The trinket case was on the toilette table, and open. 1906W. Churchill Ld. R. Churchill II. xvi. 250 The place-hunters and trinket-seekers who surrounded them.
▪ II. † ˈtrinket, n.2 Obs.
Also 6 trankett.
[Origin and history obscure.
App. a local word of Cheshire and Lancashire; possibly a particular use of prec.; but according to Ray 1691 from Welsh trànked. Owen Pugh (1832) has this word as ‘tranced an earthen vessel or cup, such a cup with a handle, as is in common use’; but no etymology of the word is known in Welsh, and it may have been borrowed from a neighbouring Eng. dialect.]
A small drinking vessel; a cup, mug; a porringer.
1541–2Will W. Davenport (Bramhall, nr. Stockport) in Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (Chetham Soc. 1857) I. 80 In y⊇ kechen..xij pottengers, xij salsers, xv trankettis, iij potthookis. 1621Gill Logon. Angl. (ed. 2) 37 Trinkets, instrumenta doliariorum quibus vinum ab uno vase exhauritur in aliud. 1691Ray N.C. Words (E.D.S.), Counterfeits and Trinkets, porringers and saucers. Chesh. Ibid., Trinket, a porringer. Chesh. from Welsh trànked. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Trinkets, Porringers. c1705De Foe True Relat. Appar. Mrs. Veal Wks. 1840 V. 348 I'll warrant you, this mad fellow..has broke all your trinkets. But, says Mrs. Bargrave, I'll get something to drink [tea] in, for all that.
▪ III. † ˈtrinket, n.3 Obs.
Also 6–7 -ette, trinquet, 7 trinchet.
[Identical with (and prob. a.) F. trinquet (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) a foremast, also its sail; in Cotgr. 1611, ‘properly the top or top-gallant on any mast’; in mod.F. dictionaries ‘the foremast in a lateen-rigged vessel’. According to Hatz.-Darm., ad. It. trinchetto ‘a small saile called a trinket’ (Florio), ‘the fore-sail’ (Baretti); = Sp. trinquete ‘the foremast, the fore saile’ (Percival); Cat. triquete, Pg. traquete (Jal). Cf. also F. trinquette (15–16th c.), ‘a triangular sail, a kind of lateen sail’ (Littré), a fore-stay sail, a storm-jib; so Sp. trinquetilla. If the original application was to a sail, the meaning may have been a three-cornered sail, from L. triquetrus; but Jal takes the name as primarily designating a mast. See Diez, Littré, Jal.]
A kind of sail; esp. the triangular sail before the mast, in a lateen-rigged vessel.
In Holland's Livy it represents L. dolon, which Isidore (xix. iii. 3) defines as ‘minimum velum et ad proram defixum’.
1555Eden Decades 195 They..sayle with twoo sayles as with the master sayle and the trinkette. 1596Thomas Lat. Dict. (1606), Dolo, a small saile in a ship called a Trinket. 1600Holland Livy xxxvi. xliv. 943 b, Hee set up the trinkets [L. dolones] or small sailes, meaning to make way into the deepe. 1648Hexham Dutch Dict., Focke, ofte Focke-zeyl, a small saile at the prow of a ship, called a Trinket. 1658Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Wars Cyprus 63 That they might keep company, they used only the Trinchet. Ibid. 134 The Turkish gallies sayled..with their Trinchet⁓sayl onely, very close together. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. xvi. (1715) 134 Δόλων, the Trinket, or small Sail in the Fore-deck.
b. See quots., and cf. Cotgr. cited in etymology above. (Perh. an error.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Trinquet..is properly the top or top-gallant on any mast, the highest saile of a ship. [So 1707 in Glossographia Anglicana Nova.]
▪ IV. ˈtrinket, n.4 local.
[dim. of trink n.3: see -et1.]
A small or narrow channel or watercourse.
1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Trinket, a small artificial water-course. 1888H. C. Hart in N. & Q. 7th Ser. VI. 372/2 Trinket..is used about Dublin and also in the northern counties, with the sense of ‘a little stream or watercourse by the roadside’. 1901Blackw. Mag. Sept. 362/1 A smack drew through the fine mist in the Firth [of Forth], and sailing up the trinket, landed Provost Trail on the east pier-head.
▪ V. † ˈtrinket, v.1 Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 9 trinquet.
[Origin unknown (unless connected with trinket n.1 3, or trick n. or v.). Cf. also trinkle v.3]
intr. To have clandestine communications or underhand dealings with; to intrigue with; to act in an underhand way, prevaricate.
1647[see trinketingvbl. n. below]. 1651Mr. Love's Case 37 Was there any such Article..by which he stood in Conscience bound to trinket with the declared and professed Enemies of the State? 1676Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. (1826) III. 67 If the witness be found lying and trinketing in thir, it vilifies and derogates much from the weight and faith of his testimony. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §63 (1740) 63 Had the Popish Lords..not trinketed with the Enemies of that [the Crown] and themselves. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxviii, Tampering and trinketing with hellish cures. 1821― Kenilw. xxxvi, A woman, who trinkets and traffics with my worst foes!
Hence † ˈtrinketer1, one who has underhand dealings; a secret trafficker; an intriguer; † ˈtrinketing vbl. n., underhand dealing or trafficking.
1651Mr. Love's Case 40 Mr. [Chr.] Love with the rest of his fellow *Trinketers, divided their thoughts and endeavors between doing of mischief..and the keeping themselves out of danger. 1821Scott Kenilw. ix, If he becomes thus a trinketer with Satan.
1646R. Baillie Lett. 1 Dec. (1841) II. 412 The King, all his lyfe, hes loved *trinketting naturally and is thought to be much in that action now with all parties. 1647Hamilton Papers (Camden) 149 Some talk confidently of fresh trinketting with the King. a1716South Serm. (1717) VI. 126 By their Tricks and Trinketting, between Party and Party. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. i, To abhor all trafficking or trinketing with Papists.
▪ VI. ˈtrinket, v.2 rare.
[f. trinket n.1]
trans. To deck out with trinkets. Hence ˈtrinketed ppl. a. (rare).
1863Sala Capt. Dangerous III. viii. 265 The Girls for sale are apparelled in a sumptuous manner, bathed, perfumed, and trinketed out. 1922Joyce Ulysses 433 Her hands passing slowly over her trinketed stomacher. |