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  • trone
    [ Scots idem CSD] n. a truant: 1971 truancy ("playing the trone") (McCartney 98). <Black>
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  • trip down
    [cf. trip up] v. phr. (in wrestling) to trip someone and throw him to the ground: My brother friend trip
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  • trinch
    [cf. OED trinch, trench an embankment obs.→1726: military to confine by means of a trench (rare, obs?)] v.t. to block
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  • trinkets
    [W Car.; cf. Krio trinket bɔks jewelry box KED; cf. OED trinket idem and W3 a small ornament, a thing
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  • trimps
    See STRIMPS.
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  • trigger
    [from chigger by hypercorrection; cf. Belize chrip trip (Dayley)] n., Obs. chigger: 1782 Trigers. . no larger than a mite.
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  • trifle
    [OED, to jest in order to cheat, mock or amuse obs.→1602; cf. Brit. dial. Mid trifling troublesome EDD; US dial.
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  • trick
    [W Car., to use magic; cf. US Black "The conjure doctor...is to trick the victim...also called layin' the trick" (Dillard
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  • tribbet
     [cf. OED trivet a stand for a pot placed over a fire; orig. and properly with three feet, now often
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  • tree-root
    n. the foot of a tree: 1918 Bur Dog [went] to the tree-root, say "Bur Cat!" (Parsons 124). <Black>
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