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Definition of Trippets
1. trippet [n] - See also: trippet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trippets
Literary usage of Trippets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"(Trap), the ' trippets' were of two kinds. The wooden trippet,—a strip of wood
with hollowed cup at the heavier end, and a heel underneath towards the other ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"... stands out grandly along the sky-line ; but the Stripple Stones are not well
seen from the trippets. All the circles are highly placed above sea-level. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations by Henry Osborn Taylor (1898)
"... reasonably probable that they executed it as representatives of a corporation.
See Stinch- field v. Little, 1 Me. 231; trippets v. Walker, 4 Mass. ..."
4. Tylney Hall by Thomas Hood (1835)
"... such as would have delighted that enthusiast in back-locks, in-locks,
hanging-trippets, and Cornish hugs, Sir Thomas Parkyns, Baronet, of Bunny Park. ..."
5. Suffolk Deeds: Liber -I-II [1629-56]. by Suffolk County (Mass.), John Tyler Hassam (1906)
"Benjamin Emms with sd trippets part or share in all stores of Warr ammunition &c
in sd Ship And upon the Receit of aboves* part parts or Shares, ..."
6. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"The stick inserted in the ' buck,' and fastened to it with cobbler's wax-ends,
was generally a cane about a yard long. (Trap), the ' trippets' were of two ..."
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