Obs. rare–1. [Allied to OF. tricotage chicanery, trickery (Godef., Compl.), tricotement chicane c. 1400 in Godef.), tricoterie ‘cousenage, cheating, trecherie, deceit, in the following of a suit, etc.’ (Cotgr.), which imply a vb. *tricoter to cozen, cheat, and perh. a sb. *tricot; but these do not appear in this sense, unless they are fig. uses of tricoter to knit, tricot knitting.] Trickery, fraud.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. xxvi. (1869), 150. The oother hand … is cleped … tricot … and disceyuaunce.
