trestling (tresling)

[ tretablet, tretablyt. Old spellings of treat able, treat ably. tretet. An old form of treat, treaty, tret. Tret enter at a (tre-ten-te-rata), n. pl. [NL. (King), But she wou'd hae the Highland man, That wears the plaid and trews . Lizie Baillie (Child's Ballads, IV. 282). Trews or drawers, continued to form hose for the lower limbs, with shoes or low boots, completed the ordinary costume of the [Anglo-Saxon] men. Encyc . Brit ., VI. 465. trewsman (tröz'man), n.; pl. trewsmen (-men). [ trews + man .] A Highlander who wears the trews.