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1. A fatiguing or exhausting journey or effort; exhausting struggle or toil.
1823. W. Tennant, Cdl. Beaton, V. vii. 174. It’s een a lang trachle frae the Kirk Wynd in Anster, to the Castle Wynd in St. Andrews.
1840. A. Laing, Wayside Flowers (1878), 33. A’ broken and pined Wi’ trachle o’ body and trouble o’ mind.
1881. P. Duncan, in Mod. Scott. Poets, III. 171. Life’s trachle’s near a close.
2. A person who ‘trachles’ or gets ‘trachled.’
1887. J. Service, Dr. Duguid, xxiii. 157. I have had to ding some useless trauchle out of my gate.
1901. G. Douglas, House w. Green Shutters, v. 39. I would have thocht the thowless trauchle hadna the smeddum left to interfere. [Note] Trauchle, a poor trollop who trails about; smeddum, grit.
