单词 | trig out |
释义 | > as lemmastrig out transitive. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > play bowls [verb (transitive)] > set mark trig1706 set1888 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?’ trig out 1. transitive. 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 Scottish and northern dialect. ΚΠ 1696 Song, ‘This is no my ain House’ i Sin' ho claimed my daddy's place I downa bide the triggin o't. 1793 Ritson N. Garland (1809) 71 He rigg'd and trigg'd, and rid away. 1877 R. W. Thom Jock o' Knowe 54 Beauty..shines divine when seen Trigged oot in love and charity. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 62 He has rigged and trigged her with paint and spar. 1897 W. Beatty Secretar xxx. 243 (Fifeshire) She had gotten me into her room to see that I was trigged out as I should be. < as lemmas |
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