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299 Trig, To put on the drag to a wheel. To set up or support with a prop, " to trig it up." To trip up. If falling, a lad would say he had " trigged his foot." Trig. Shellfish are so called at Helford, and many other places in Cornwall. Polwhele. (Treage, The muscle (fish). Borlase.J Celtic Cornish. Trikle. Treacle. (Triacle. Chaucer,) Troach. To step along, to tread upon, to trample on. Troachers, Itinerant dealers or pedlers. So called because they troach (trot) about the country. Troaching. Trudging, plodding along, walking about. (Hawking vegetables. M.A.c.) Treading upon. "Tro- aching about all day long." Troddler. Just "going off," one just learning to walk, " a little troddler." Troil. A feast. (A short row on the sea. M.A.c.) Troil, A tinner's feast. (Also called a duggle. Fryce.) Troll foot. See Trowled. Troll footed. One who has club feet. Trone. A small furrow, or narrow trench. Trool. To turn round or run, as does a small wheel, or roll like a ball. See Truckle. Trot. The bed of a river. Polwhele. Trot. "An old trot." A moping, cross, and wretched old woman, a covetous person, an old miser. From troth, Celtic Cornish, poor, wretched.