sb. pl. Sc. [app. corruption of TRENTALS, taken as a type of trifling ceremonies.] Trifles, trifling or petty articles.
[1562. A. Scott, New Yeir Gift to Q. Mary, 89, Poems (S.T.S.), 4. Thai tyrit God with tryfillis, tyme trentalis, And daisit him with daylie darigeis.]
1697. Cleland, Poems, 88. Such are baptizing of bells, Hallowing Altars, Kirk and Cells … For to impose gray Gowns, or Mantles, Or any such base Tritle Trantles.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., Trantles, bits of broken iron; odd things of hardware about a farm-house, same with trantlums; there are generally boles or holes about, where broken horse-shoon [etc.] be thrown; these are termed trantle-boles.
a. 1903. J. Lumsden, Toorle, etc., 206.
| A’ kind o’ trantles they could find | |
| They braucht along! |
