trampler (trampler)

[ Pity your trampler , sir, your poor solicitor. Middle ton , World Tost at Tennis. The trampler is in hast, O cleere the way, Takes fees with both hands cause he cannot stay, No matter wheth'r the cause be right or wrong, So hee be payd for letting out his tongue. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) trampoose, v . i. See trampous . trampot (tram'pot), n. [ tram1 + pot . ] In IMG:content-0719.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] 1. Arched trampot, the arch at a straddling a driving-shaft when bevel-gearing is used; a , bridge-tree supporting the step b. 2. More common forni of trampot, in which the movable step is adjustable to center by a quadrilateral arrangement of set-screws. milling, the support in which the foot of the spindle is stepped. trampous, trampoose (tram'pus, tram-pös'), v.i.; pret. and pp. trampoused, trampoosed, ppr. trampousing, trampoosing. [Appar. Some years ago I landed near to Dover, And seed strange sights, trampoosing England over. D. Humphreys, The Yankee in England. ( Bartlett .) tramp-pick (tramp'pik), n. A kind of lever of iron, about 4 feet long and 1 inch in breadth and thickne , tapering away at the lower end and having a small degree of curvature there, somewhat like the prong of a dung-fork, used for turning up very hard soils. It is fitted with a rest, about 18 inches from the lower end, on which the workman pre es with his foot. trankeh journey over a country; especially, a tedious journey. [Old and prov. Eng.] -2. A pa age, especially a pa age inside a house. [Scotch.] But mair he look'd, and dule saw he, On the door at the trance , Spots o' his dear ladys bluid Shining like a lance. Lammikin (Child's Ballads, III. 311). trancelt (trans), v. i. [Early mod. E. also traunce; Traunce the world over, you shall never purse up so much gold as when you were in England. Fletcher (and another ), Fair Maid of the Inn, v. 2. trance (trans.), n. [Early mod. E. also transe, traunce; Now hast thou sit as in a trance , and seen To thy soul's joy, and honour of thy house, The trophies and the triumphs of thy men. Peele, Battle of Alcazar, v. While they made ready, he fell into a trance , and saw heaven opened. Acts x. 10, 11. Some haue their supernaturall traunces or rauishments: some dwell amongst men, some by themselues apart. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 307. 2. A state of perplexity or bewilderment; IMG:content-0720.png:[blocks in formation] A tranced summer-night. trancedly (tran's ed-li), adv . In a trance-like or spell-bound manner; like one in a trance. Then stole I up, and trancedly Gazed on the Persian girl alone. Tennyson, Arabian Nights. tramroad (tram'rod), n. [Formerly also (once) dramroad (a form appar. due to the D. cognate); tram1 , a rail, + road . ] A road in which the flat stones, or plates of iron laid in line; a tram- track for the wheels is made of pieces of wood, tranché (F. pron. tron-sha'), a. [F., pp. of way. See tramway. trancher, cut: see trench.] In her., party per bend.