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TRAKIT, _part. pa._ Much fatigued.
V. ~Traik~.
TRAM, _s._
1. The shaft of a cart or carriage of any kind, S.
_Dunbar._
Su. G. _traam_, that part of a tree, which is cut into different portions.
2. A beam or bar.
_Spalding._
3. In a ludicrous sense, the leg or limb; as, _lang trams_, long limbs, S.
TRAMALT NET, corr. from E. _trammel_.
_Lyndsay._
TRAMORT, _s._ A corpse.
_Dunbar._
Su. G. _tra_, to consume, _mort_, dead.
_To_ TRAMP, _v. a._
1. To tread with force, S.
_Lyndsay._
Sw. _trampa pa_, conculcare.
2. To tread, in reference to walking, S.
_Ferguson._
_To_ ~Tramp~, _v. n._
1. To tread with a heavy step, S.
Su. G. _tramp-a_, id.
2. To walk; as opposed to any other mode of travelling, S.
_Pop. Ball._
~Tramp~, _s._
1. The act of striking the foot suddenly downwards, S.
2. An excursion, properly a pedestrian one. S.
_Burns._
TRANCE, TRANSE, _s._
1. A pa.s.sage within a house, S.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
2. Used metaph. in relation to death.
_Rutherford._
_To_ TRANE, _v. n._ To travel.
_Burel._
Su. G. _tren-a_, incedere, gressus facere.
_To_ TRANONT, TRANOYNT, TRANOWNT, TRANENT, TRAWYNT, _v. n._
1. To march suddenly in a clandestine manner.
_Barbour._
2. To march quickly, without including the idea of stratagem or secrecy.
_Wallace._
3. To return, to turn back.
_Pal. Hon._
Fr. _traine_, a snare, an ambush.
~Tranowintyn~, _s._ A stratagem of war.
