thripplen.
/ˈθrɪp(ə)l/ Now local.
A movable framework fitted upon a cart, so as to project in every direction beyond its sides, and thus to extend its carrying surface when loaded with hay, etc.; a cart-ladder, shelving.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > to increase capacity
cart-staff1297
thripple14..
rathe1459
summer1510
cart-ladder?1523
rail1530
rave1530
shelboard1569
wain-flakes1570
load-pina1642
shelvingsa1642
cop1679
float1686
lade1686
outrigger1794
shelvement1808
sideboard1814
heck1825
hay-rigging1855
floating rail1892
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 628/10 Epredia, the þerrepyllis.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 354 The Cart-ladder or thripple both before and behind being to be taken off at pleasure.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 339/2 In an Oxe Teeame [the Cart Lathers] are termed Thriples.
1891 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 28 Mar. 7/2 His pair of thripples were new ones. He bought the thripples from defendant in exchange for some hay hauling he had done for him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† thripplev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To practise small economies; to exercise mean thrift.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > be sparing or frugal [verb (intransitive)] > economize > in small things
thripple1583
cheesepare1874
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Mviv This makes many a one to thripple & pinch, to runne into debte and daunger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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