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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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TRENKET, n. Also trinket. An iron heel on a shoe (Slg. 1825 Jam.).Lnk. a.1846 in R. Naismith Stonehouse (1885) 200:
The heel could not keep on the trinket, Tho' e'er so firmly roov'd and clinket.