Chiefly Sc. Obs. In 5–6 tratlar, 6 -or, 7 -er. [f. TRATTLE v. + -ER1.] One who ‘trattles’; an idle talker, chatterer, gossip.

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1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 78. The tane is a grete tratlar, the tothir a still herkenare.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xli. 10. Be ȝe ane lear, that is werst of all, Be ȝe ane tratlar, that I hald als ewill.

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1599.  James I., Βασιλικον Δωρον (1603), 100. Where yee finde a tratler, away with him.

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1670.  Ray, Prov., 260. A tratler is worse then a thief.

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