verb. (old cant).—1. To hang: see LADDER (B. E. and GROSE). TRINING-CHEAT = the gallows. [That is, TRINE = three + CHEAT (q.v.), generic for thing.] Also TREYNE.
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, 31. Their end is either hanging, which they call TRINING in their language, or die miserably of the pox.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874], 37. If you will make a word for the gallows, you must put thereto this word, TREYNING, which signifies hanging; and so TREYNING CHEATE is as much to say, hanging things, or the gallows.
1612. DEKKER, O per se O, ‘Bing out, bien Morts.’
| On chates to TRINE, by Rome-coues dine | |
| for his long lib at last. |
2. (old).—To go.
1360. Alliterative Poems (MORRIS). [We see the Danish TRINE (ire), which Scott used as a slang term, ‘TRINE to the nabbing cheat.’]
1609. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight. If we … dup but the gigger of a country-coves ken, from thence … we TRINE to the chats.
1622. FLETCHER, Beggar’s Bush, iii. 4. And harmanbecks TRINE, and TRINE to the ruffin! [justice of peace].
