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▪ I. trug1 local.|trʌg| Also 6–8 trugg. [? Dialectal variant of trough.] 1. An old local measure for wheat, equal to two-thirds of a bushel. Also attrib., trug-corn, trug-wheat: see quots.
[c1350in Blount Law Dict. (1670) s.v., Tres Trugge frumenti vel avenae faciunt 2 Bushels infra Prebendam de Hunderton in Ecclesia Heref.] 1670Blount Law Dict. s.v., At Lempster at this day the Vicar has Trug Corn allow'd him for Officiating at some Chappels of ease. 1676Coles Dict., Trug, three trugs make two bushels. 1866N. & Q. 3rd Ser. X. 415/2 There is in the parish of Leominster, a payment of the nature of tithe, which is known as trug-wheat. 2. A shallow wooden tray or pan to hold milk; also, a tray or hod for mortar; also (north. dial.), a wooden coal-box.
1580,1630[implied in trugger]. 1600in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 226 Item in the mylke house..two dowsin of bowles and Truggs. 1630Will W. Buncker (C. C. Canterb. MS.), Two milke trugges [and] two milk boules. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 77 A Trug, a tray for milk or the like, Suss. Dial. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trugg, (Country-Word) a Milk-Tray or such like Vessel, a Hod to carry Mortar in. 1847–78Halliwell, Ash-trug, a coal-scuttle. North. 1878–81Cumberld. Gloss., Trug, a wooden coal-box. 3. A shallow oblong basket made of wooden strips with a handle from side to side, chiefly used for carrying fruit, vegetables, and the like; also trug-basket.
1862M. A. Lower in Athenæum 30 Aug. 281 A trug-basket,..a vessel..almost peculiar to the county of Sussex. Some such trugs were sent to the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1882Ibid. 26 Aug. 271/2 A Sussex trug..is a flat basket, not of wicker, but of flakes of sallow, braced with ash and furnished with a handle of the latter wood. 1909Spectator 10 July 49/1 She descends with a huge wooden trug half filled with maize. ▪ II. trug2 Obs. exc. dial. Also 6–7 trugge, 7 truck. [? ad. It. trucca ‘a fustian or rogish word for a trull, a whore, or a wench’ (Florio); perh. cognate with truck n.1] A prostitute; a trull.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier G j, You Tom tapster..haue your trugges to draw men on to villanie. 1620tr. Boccaccio's Decam. vi. x. 18 b, One of the Hostesses Female attendants, a gross fat Trugge. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies 139 Would you have a true survey of his family..? you shall finde them subsist of three heads: himselfe, his truck, and her misset. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Trug, a dirty Puzzel, an ord'nary sorry Woman. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Trug, a trull, low female companion. †b. A catamite. Obs. rare.
c1608Healey Disc. new World iii. vii. §2. 194 Euery other house keepes sale Trugges or Ganymedes. a1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Bawd Wks. ii. 93/2 A cursed Catalogue of those veneriall caterpillars..with the number of trugs which each of them kept. Hence † ˈtrugging-house, † ˈtrugging-place, a brothel.
1591Greene Dict. Coosnage Wks. (Grosart) X. 37 The whoore house, a Trugging place. 1592― Blacke Bkes. Messenger Wks. (ed. Huth) XI. 12 This olde Letcher..had a haunt into Petticote Lane to a Trugging house there. ▪ III. trug obs. form of trudge. |