\textbf{TRUNK-WEAM.} A fiddle.

\textbf{TRUNLIN.} A large coal. North.

\textbf{TRUNNLE.} The same as Trendle, q.v.

\textbf{TRUNTLEMENT.} Trumpery. North.

\textbf{TRUPHILLE.} A trifle.

\textbf{TRUSH.} (1) A hussock. Kent. 
(2) To trush about, to litter. 
(3) To run about in the dirt. North.

\textbf{TRUSLE.} (1) Trust. Weber. 
(2) To wrap up; to get ready.

\textbf{TRUSS.} (1) A padded jacket worn under the armour to protect the skin. 
(2) To tie the points of hose. To truss up, to tuck up the gown, \&c. 
(3) The baggage of an army. 
(4) To pack up. Hence, to make ready.

And trusse all that he mithten fynde 
Of hise, in arke, or in kiste. Havelok, 2018.

(5) A boy's game, like leap-frog. 
(6) Truss up, to hang a person.

\textbf{TRUSSEL.} (1) A pack, or bundle. 
(2) A stand for a barrel. Kent.

\textbf{TRUSSES.} The same as Trousers, q.v.

\textbf{TRUSSING.} In falconry, as a hawk's raising any fowl or prey aloft; soaring up, and then descending with it to the ground.

\textbf{TRUSSING-BASKET.} A basket used for conveying large parcels of goods. Called also a trussing-coffer.

\textbf{TRUSSING-BED.} A travelling bed. ``Trussying bedde, lit de champ,'' Palsgrave.

Also my large bed of black velvet, embroidered with a circle of fetter-locks, and garters, all the beds made for my body called in England tressing beds. Test. Vetust. p. 141.

\textbf{TRUT.} (1) Stercus. Hearne. 
(2) The cry of hunters returning home after the sport is finished.

\textbf{TRUTHY.} Faithful; veracious. East.

\textbf{TRY.} (1) To fare. Somerset. 
(2) A corn screen. Also, to screen. 
(3) To boil down lard. East. 
(4) How de try, how do you do? Exm. 
(5) A club tipped with iron.

\textbf{TRYALTYES.} Three benefices united.

And shew'd themselves as errant lyars, 
As th' were 'prentice to the tryers. 
Brome's Songs, 1661, p. 167.

\textbf{TRYSTI.} Trusty; secure.

On trysti roche heo stondeth fast, 
And wyth de dyche buth all be cast. 
Religious Poems, xv. Cent.

\textbf{TRYVE.} To drive.

In chastlyshynge hath made a rod 
To tryve awey hire wantonnesse. 
Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 111.

\textbf{TU.} To work hard. North.

\textbf{TUARN.} The place in an iron furnace which receives the metal. Staff.

\textbf{TUAY.} Two.

From arnemorwe to the midday, 
He hadde strength of knightes tuay. 
Arthur and Merlin, p. 178.

\textbf{TUB.} (1) Tale of a tub, a stupid nonsensical story. 
(2) The top of a malt-kiln. Essex. 
(3) The gurnet. Cornw. 
(4) One mode of curing the lues venerea was by the tub, the patient sweating for a considerable time in a heated tub. This mode is often alluded to by early writers.

\textbf{TUBBAN.} A clod of earth. Cornw.

\textbf{TUBBER.} A cooper. North.

\textbf{TUBBLE.} A mattock. Devon.

\textbf{TUB-IRON.} An iron placed in front of a smith's fire-place, having a hole through which the spout of the bellows is put.

\textbf{TUBLE.} Earthenware. West.

\textbf{TU-BRUGGE.} A drawbridge.

\textbf{TUCK.} (1) To eat. Also, an appetite. 
(2) A short pinafore. East. 
(3) To smart with pain. Wilts. In Devonshire, to pinch severely. 
(4) A slap. Devon. 
(5) A horizontal fold made in a garment to accommodate it to tue height of a growing person. 
(6) To touch. Somerset. 
(7) A rapier. Still in use. 
(8) To chuck. Cornw.

\textbf{TUCKER.} (1) A fuller. West. 
(2) The same as Pinner, q.v.

\textbf{TUCKER-IN.} A chambermaid. West.

\textbf{TUCKET.} A slight flourish on a trumpet.

\textbf{TUCKING.} A bag used for carrying beans in when setting them. Glouc.

\textbf{TUCKING-GIRDLE.} ``Tuckyng kyrdell, saincture decourser,'' Palsgrave.

\textbf{TUCKS.} Iron pins in the frame of a timber-tug to prevent the timber slipping off.

\textbf{TUCKSHELLS.} Tusks. Sussex.

\textbf{TUE.} (1) To rumple. North. 
(2) The same as Tew, q.v.

\textbf{TUEL.} (1) A towel. West. 
(2) The fundament. See Tewel. 
(3) A vexatious meddling. North.

\textbf{TUEN.} To go.

Ant alle the other that mine buen, 
Shule to blisse with me tuen. 
Harrowing of Hell, p. 29.

\textbf{TUFF.} (1) A Turkish turban. 
(2) A tassel. Also, to ornament with tassels. 
(3) A lock of wool. 
(4) To spit or hiss, as a cat.

\textbf{TUFFOLD.} A small outhouse. Yorksh.

\textbf{TUFT.} A grove, or plantation.

\textbf{TUFT-HUNTER.} A hanger-on to noblemen and persons of quality.

\textbf{TUFT-MOCKADO.} A mixed stuff made to imitate tufted taffeta, or velvet.

\textbf{TUFT-TAFFATY.} A taffaty tufted, or left with a nap on it, like velvet.

Sleeveless his jerkin was, and it had been 
Velvet, but 'twas now (so much worn as seen) 
Become tuft-taffaty, and our children shall 
See it plain rash a while, then nought at all. 
Donne's Poems, p. 129.

\textbf{TUG.} (1) A contest. Var. dial. 
(2) A timber-carriage. Sussex. 
(3) To rob; to spoil. North. 
(4) A difficult undertaking. West.