tregetourt, tragetourt

[ME., also treget tour, trajetour, trajitour, For ofte at feestes have I wel herd seye That tregetours withinne an halle large Have maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun; Some tyme hath semed come a grym leoun, And somtyme floures sprynge as in a mede; Somtyme a vyne, and grapes white and rede; Somtyme a castel, al of lym and stoon; And whan hym lyked voyded it anoon: Thus semed it to every mannes sighte. Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 415. Maister John Rykell, sometyme tregitoure Of noble Henry kynge of Englonde. Lydgate, Daunce of Macabre, quoted in J. P. Collier's [Hist. Dram. Poetry, I. 21. tregetryt, tragetryt, n . [ME., treget + -( e )ry.] Legerdemain; jugglery; deception. Soche soteltie thai soght to solas hom with; The tables, the top, tregetre also, And in the moneth of may mekill thai vsit, With floures and fre he bowes fecchyng of somer. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1624. They knowe not al my tregetrie. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 6382. IMG:content-0811.png:[blocks in formation] Makers of flower-gardens: grottos, treillages. contrivers of bowers, Spectator. treille (trel), n. [F., a lattice, trellis: see trail2, trellis.] 1. In her., a lattice. [Rare.] 2. In lace - making, a réseau or net ground. trek (trek), v. i. [Also treck; Bullocks can not trek with wet yokes, or their shoulders become galled. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXIX. 618. (b) To travel by ox-wagon; hence, to travel in general; go from place to place; migrate. Thus the early Cape "boers" adopted the nomad habit of trekking , which simply meant enlarging the range of their occupation of new land and a further advance into the interior. Westminster Rev., CXXVI. 166.