Trapesing

gadding or go iping about in a slatternly way. Generally applied to girls and women in low neighbourhoods, who wander from public-house to public-house, and whose clothes are carele ly fastened, causing them to trail on the ground. Traveller , name given by one tramp to another. “A TRAVELLER at her Majesty’s expense,” i.e. , a transported felon, a convict. Tree , “up a TREE ,” in temporary difficulties,—out of the way. American expre ion, derived from racoon or bear-hunting. When Bruin is TREED , or is forced up a TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. See ’COON . Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED . These expre ions originated with Colonel Crockett, of backwoods celebrity. In Scotland the phrase is “up a close,” i.e. , up a pa age with no outlet, a cul-de-sac , therefore suggestive of an unpleasant predicament.