trining

Verb (1)

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)

1. (transitive) To put in the aspect of a trine.
   • By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
2. (UK, archaic, thieves' cant) To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
   • Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight

   Synonyms:

   hang, swing, dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp

Verb (2)

trine (third-person singular simple present trines, present participle trining, simple past and past participle trined)

1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) To go.
   • Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, act 3, scene 3, page 42

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