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ALMONDBURY AND HUDDERSFIELD. 141 Trade, trod ; past tense of to tread. Trail, to draj? ; or, intransitive, to move or walk about. See Addle. To a slovenly man it is sometimes said, * Tha' looks as if tha*d been trailed thro' a wickthom hedge.' TraUy, slovenly. Trap. In weaving, when they break a lot of threads close to the cloth, so that they cannot be piectned^ it is usually called * a trap,* The threads are lengthened by putting others to them. Thoy are then put under the temples ^ which plan holds them in till they get fastened with the weaving. A bad place in the cloth is the conse- quence, and that is also called a trap. Tredden. for trodden, past participle of to tread. Trepanned, punished. ' I'll have thee trepanned : ' perhaps knocked on the head. Tress, or Trest, a long bench to sit on ; a form. Hence trestle. Trest, a table used to kill pigs on. Trigg off, about, &c., i.e. move off, about, set off, &c. TroUers, or Tronllers, the rockers of a rocking chair. Trones, the steelyards. Trowel {oto as in noio). To play trowel is to play truant Trowell, mason's instrument (pronounced very oddly, something like trah'Will), Tmoks, smuts in grain. Tubber, a cooper. Tug, past tense and post participle of to tig. Tul, to : only used before a voweL Ttd 'em = to them. Much used in Farnley Tyas, also at Lepton and Almondbury. [Pure Scandina- vian ; Danish til ] Turn, vb. which denotes the first process in carding wool, when it was worked between * hand kaerds ' to make it uniform, break it up, and lay the fibres. Tom, one who 'turns.' Tune (teun), to beat, or thrash ; also a process in manufacturing. m Tuner, one who tunes, ?'. e. sets the looms in order to weave the pieces perfect. Tormerhill, an artificial hill at Hillhouse. Twags, twigs.