[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRAPES.
1593. Bilson, Govt. Christ’s Ch., xiv. 296. This t[r]apesing to and fro I impute rather to the rawnesse of your discipline not yet digested, then to the giddinesse of your heaves. This it is to wander in the desert of your owne deuises without the line of Gods worde, or leuell of his Church to direct you.
1800. Mar. Edgeworth, Out of Debt, i. Anything’s better than trapesing through a shop.
1887. ‘H. Smart,’ Cleverly Won, vii. If she thought trapesing about with the hounds was the way to get married, she was mistaken.
1895. T. Hardy, Jude, III. ii. The traipsing along to the station, the porter’s ‘B’your leave!’ the screaming of the trains.
