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ˈtrantles, † trantals, n. pl. Sc. [app. corruption of trentals, taken as a type of trifling ceremonies.] Trifles, trifling or petty articles.
[1562A. Scott New Yeir Gift to Q. Mary 89 Poems (S.T.S.) 4 Thai tyrit God with tryfillis, tvme trentalis, And daisit him with daylie darigeis.] 1697Cleland Poems 88 Such are baptizing of bells, Hallowing Altars, Kirk and Cells..For to impose gray Gowns, or Mantles, Or any such base Tritle Trantles. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Trantles, bits of broken iron; odd things of hardware about a farm-house, same with trantlums; there are generally boles or holes about, where broken horse-shoon [etc.] be thrown; these are termed trantle-boles. a1903J. Lumsden Toorle, etc. 206 A' kind o' trantles they could find They braucht along! |