1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs xvi. 62 Nor is his suite in danger to be stopt, Or with the trigges of long demurrers propt.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing vii. 63 I've seen the wheels chocked with a little trig not bigger than a cat's head.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Trig, a wedge or block to prop up a cask, or to stop a wheel.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Trig, a sprag used for stopping or putting the brake on trams, wagons, &c.

1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 68 Trig, a piece of wood laid in front of a waggon wheel to stop its motion.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 220 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.

1648 W. Davenant Vacation in London 98 Now Alderman in field does stand, With foot on Trig, a Quoit in hand.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 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.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Trig, the point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the bowl.

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/1 He is also..to preserve the centre or trig line, especially in curves.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Trig, the starting line in a race, which may be either a stretched cord, a stick, a post, or an imaginary boundary.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Trig, (2) The mark from which a ball is delivered.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vii. sig. K4^v You are a Pimpe, and a Trig, And an Amadis de Gaule, or a Don Quixote. View more context for this quotation

1728 A. Ramsay Lure 40 What fowl is that,..that stands sae trigly on your hand?

1895 J. Tweeddale Moff i. 14 Fields were subdivided by trigly cut hedges.

1821 J. Galt 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.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. ii. 18 Their spars had no man-of-war trigness.

1862 McLean Papers (MS.) XX. 87 Mr Swainson informs me that the Trig Station pulled down was not one erected by him.

1926 J. Devanny Lenore Divine xx. 184 They reached the trig station at the top, two thousand five hundred feet above sea-level.

1936 H. 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.

1959 J. Braine Vodi vi. 92 I've not done those trig. problems.

1968 G. R. Crone Maps & their Makers xi. 143 Transference of the trig. points to the sheets issued to the plane tablers.

1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 577/1 Surveyors had to be trained [for Ordnance Survey mapmaking]; trig-points and bench~marks established.

1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Trig. n., trigonometry.

1924 P. 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.

1976 J. Lee Ninth Man i. 48 Andy flunked trig for the second time (damn higher mathematics, anyway).

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Calzar To shoo. Calceare, to trig a wheele [mod.Sp. Dict., calzar, to shoe..to stop a wheel].

1651 H. B. in W. Cartwright Comedies sig. ***2 Times Wheels are trig'd, and brib'd to make a stand.

a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 155 With free Chariot, fat Damasippus hurries; he, (He! even the consul) triggs the wheel.

1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Trigger An Iron to Trig or stay a Wheel.

1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 235 Our friend Haterius should be trigged like a cart-wheel on an inclined plane.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing vii. 63 They make pesky bad work, triging the wheels of Government.

1845 S. Judd Margaret (1871) iii. 397 I stand ready to trig the wheels in all the steep places.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 26 Shores, which ought to be placed on Timber Foundations, called Sholes, and well nog'd or trig'd.

1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring xiv She made him raise the hearthstone, and trig it up with a piece of granite.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West xvii To prevent the springs being broken..the axle-trees had been ‘trigged up’ below with blocks of wood.

1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 213 The wheels being oyled with delight, run nimbly, and have often need of trigging.

1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) vi. 78 Our thoughts run nimbly..like oyled wheels, and have need of trigging.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Trig,..to set a mark to stand at, in playing at Nine-pins.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Trigged, having a Mark set to stand in playing at Nine Pins.

1843 [implied in: Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 56 Two men, named triggers, must see that when the race for the succeeding cast of the bowl has concluded, the straw is exactly between the feet of the party whose turn it is to dismiss the bowl. (at trigger n.³ b)].

1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. 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’.

1893 H. Pease Borderland Stud. 36 Gravely he consulted with his ‘marrow’ (mate) who ‘trigged’ for him.., carefully noted the indicated line.

1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 235/1 Plots of ground let for building are trigged out, i.e. the boundaries are marked by cutting a small trench in them.

1914 H. 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?’

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 49 Away to the landes ende they trigge.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (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.

a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady ii. i Hee triggs it to Romilia's.

a1680 T. Goodwin Disc. Blessed State iii. xii, in Wks. (1704) V. 83 His Servant..(who must presently, without more ado, trig and Foot it after his Master).

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 66 She..Trig'd away Hand in Hand with the Gentleman.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) To trig it, to play truant.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Trig, to trot gently; or trip as a child does after its nurse. ‘They trigged off together’.

1872 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 72 Mony a mile he had to trig One sweltin' summer day.

1891 B. Gregory in Wesl. Meth. Mag. 56 A travelling tailor, having ‘trigged the country’ in search of work as far as ‘Newrak’.

1724 A. Ramsay This is no my ain House i Mine ain house I'll like to guide, And please me with the trigging o't.