trant

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  1. To walk; go about as a peddler. Compare tranter. [Provincial English] And had some traunting merchant to his sire, That traffick'd both by water and by fire. Hall's Satires, IV. ii. (Nares.)
  2. To turn; play a trick. Quen thay seghe hym [a fox] with syʒt, thay sued hym fast, … & he trantes & tornayeez thurʒ mony tene greue [rough grove]. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 1707.
  3. A turn; a trick; a stratagem. For alle his fare I hym deffie, I knowe his trantis fro toppe to taile, He leuys with gaudis and with gilery. York Plays, p. 381. Summe [hunters] fel in the fute, ther the fox bade, Traylez ofte a trayteres, bi traunt of her wyles. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 1700.

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  1. Formerly also traunt; from Middle English tranten, from Middle Dutch, Dutch tranten, walk slowly.
  2. from Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant =Swedish dial. trant, a step; from the verb.
 

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