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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1461, 1513, 1590-1611
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Trigland, Tri(c)kling, Trynkland, ppl. adj. Also: trynland, trinkling, tygland, tygglande. [e.m.E. tricklyng (1557); Trigil v.] Trickling. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxii 278.
Thane Laurence handis one hym lad With tygland terys 1461 Liber Pluscardensis I 382.
Ger all the cloudis … souk vp all thir watteris hal and sounde … Syn to discende in tygglande teris tere 1513 Doug. ix xiii 78.
Our all hys body furth ȝet the swait thik, Lyke to the trynland [Sm. trymbland, Ruddim. trynkland] blak stremys of pyk 1513 Doug. xi v 20.
Trigland c1590 Fowler I 240/3.
Trikling c1590 J. Stewart 91/413.
Vith trickling teirs beblubring all his sycht a1605 Montg. Sonn. lv 10.
My trinkling teirs, the presents I propyne 1611 Mure Early Misc. P. ii 88.
Sche … scorn'd my loue, Lauching to sie my trickling teirs doune go
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