Venery. Obs. [f. TROCHE1 + -ING1.] A ‘troche,’ or troches collectively; a branching into a troche.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), ii. If þer be thre or .iiii. or mo, it is ycleped trochynge. Ibid., xxiv. Þe trochynge … hye and gret.
1660. Howell, Parly of Beasts, iv. 62. Such branch’d horns, such spilters [sic] and trochings on their heads, as that goodly Stagg bears.
1678. Phillips (ed. 4), Trochings,… the small little branches on the top of the Deers-head, divided into three or four.
