trigger, tricker

[Dut. trekker a trig ger; trecker =one who draws or pulls, from trekken =to pull, to draw.] 1. Firearms : A catch which, being retracted, liberates the hammer of a gun-lock. [HAIR-TRIGGER.] "Gave the gun its aim, and figure Made in field, yet ne'er pull'd trigger ." Cowper: An Epitaph . 2. Ship build.: A piece of wood placed under a dog-shore to hold it up until the time for launch ing. The dog-shore buts against cleats on the bilge ways, and is knocked away when the signal is given for launching. *3. Vehicles : A catch to hold the wheel of a car riage in descending a hill. IMG:content-1436.png:[blocks in formation] tri-glyph, *try-glyph, s. [Latin triglyph us, from Greek trigly phos =thrice-cloven glyph, from tri- = three, and glyphō = to carve.] Arch. ( pl .): Orna- ments repeated at equal intervals in the Doric frieze. Each triglyph consists of two entire gutters or channels cut to a right angle, called glyphs, and separated by their interstices, called femora, from each other, as well as from two other half channels that are formed at the sides. IMG:content-1437.jpg:[ocr errors][subsumed][merged small][subsumed] trigon ell a they seem to me as if they were meant to convey the guttæ or drops which hang a little under them."-Evelyn. On Architecture .