Tramp, subs, and verb, (old: now recognised).—1. 'On the lookout for employment; walking about from place to place. Cant' (Grose).
2. (nautical).—A cargo boat seeking charter or cargo when and where obtainable; also tramp-steamer, and ocean tramp.
Tramper, subs. (workmen's).—A
travelling mechanic.
Trampler, subs. (old).—A lawyer:
see Greenbag.
1619. Middleton, World at Tennis. Pity your trampler, sir, your poor solicitor.
1630. Taylor, Works [Nares]. The trampler is in hast, O cleere the way, Takes fees with both hands cause he cannot stay.
Trampolin, subs. (circus).—A
double spring-board.
Trampoose, verb. (American).—To
walk, tramp, wander about:
cf. vamoose. Also trampous
and trampoos.
d.1818 [?]. D. Humphreys, Yankee in England. Some years ago, I landed near to Dover, And seed strange sights, trampoosing England over.
1837. Haliburton, Clockmaker, 387. I had been down city all day trampoosing everywhere a'most to sell some stock. Ibid. (1843-4), The Attaché, ii. I felt as lonely as a catamount, and as dull as a bachelor beaver; so I trampousses off to the stable.
1850. Porter, Tales of the South and West, 44. So we trampoused along down the edge of the swamp, till we came to a track.
Traneen. Not worth a traneen,
phr. (Irish).—Valueless;
not worth a rush. [Traneen =
the Traneen-grass].
Trangdillo. See Twangdillo.
Trangram (Trangam or Trankum),
subs. (old).—A trifle, fal-*lal,
ornament; anything or
anybody of little or no value.
Cf. reduplication, trinkum-
trankum.
1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. But go, thou trangame, and carry back those trangames, which thou hast stol'n or purloin'd.
1713. Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull, 11. vi. What's the meaning of all these trangrams and gimcracks?
1820. Scott, Abbot, xix. 'What, have you taken the chain and medal off from my bonnet?' 'And meet time it was when yon . . . rogue . . . began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing.' Ibid. (1825), St. Ronan's Well, xviii. The shawl must be had for Clara, with the other trankums of muslin and lace.
Tranklement, subs. (common).—In
pl. = intestines, entrails: cf.
trolly-bags.
Transcribbler, subs. (old).—(1)
A careless copyist: hence (2) a
plagiarist.
1746. Gray, To Wharton, 11 Sept. Thirdly, he [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
Transfisticated, adj. (old).—Pierced.
1600. Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine. For though your beard do stand so fine mustated, Perhaps your nose may be transfisticated.
Translate, verb. (old).—To remanufacture
selected parts of old
boots and shoes. Also (tailors')
to turn (or cut down) a coat or
other garment. Whence translator
= (1) a cobbler; (2) in pl.
= re-made boots and shoes; and
(3) a renovating tailor (B. E. and
Grose).
