Lexicographical Neighbors of Trigging
Literary usage of Trigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"In which Mr Dooming tells about trigging the wheels of government. Portland,
Thursday Feb. 11, 1831. DEAR COUSIN EPHRAIM. — I've wrote you three postscripts ..."
2. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing: Pseud. of Downingville, Away by Seba Smith (1834)
"'V /« which Mr. Downing tells about trigging the wheels of government. Portland,
Thursday, Feb. 11, 1830. DEAR COUSIN EPHRAIM- — I 've wrote you three ..."
3. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"This operation is called trigging the jigger. TRIG IT. To play truant. To lay a
man trigging; to knock him down. ..."
4. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier (1851)
"Still you may manage to make the car run in an imperfect fashion, either by
trigging one or two of the hind-wheels, or by reducing the fore-wheels to a ..."
5. Neues und vollständiges Deutsch-englisches Wörterbuch: Zu J.C. Adelung's by Carl Gottlob Küttner, William Nicholson, Johann Christoph Adelung (1809)
"... a trigger, a chain for (topping or trigging я wheel, ... a hanging matter.
of (topping, trigging, retarding, ..."
6. The Mining Engineer (1908)
"all the progress made in mining engineering in'recent years, it was passing
strange that the dangerous method of trigging wagons was still in operation. ..."
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