trig

comparative trigger · superlative triggest

1. dialectalTrue; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. dialectalSafe; secure.
3. dialectalTight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.

   Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...

   2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)

4. dialectalNeat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.

   we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig

   1857, J. Rarey, “The Taming of Horses”, in British Quarterly Review

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   “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.

   1973, Newsweek, April 16

5. dialectalActive; clever.

plural trigs

1. dialectalA dandy; coxcomb.

plural trigs

1. dialectalinformaluncountableTrigonometry.
2. countabledialectalinformalgeographyA trig point.

plural trigs

1. UKdialectalA stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

   You might as well smite that saw with your fist ; you might as well put a trig under the dam and stop it, as to practise on him

   1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family

2. dialectalThe mark for players at skittles, etc.

present singular third person trigs · participle present trigging · participle past trigged · past trigged

1. dialectaltransitiveTo stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

present singular third person trigs · participle present trigging · participle past trigged · past trigged

1. dialectalTo fill; to stuff; to cram.

   By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.

   1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC

plural trigs

1. dialectalinformalmedicineTriglyceride.

plural trigs

1. dialectalbiologyA cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.