† trenket Obs.
Also 5–6 trynket.
[a. OF. (Picard) trenquet, OF. trenchet, f. trenquer, trencher to cut: see trench v.]
A knife; spec. a shoemaker's knife.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 502/1 Trenket, sowtarys knyfe, anxorium. 1483 Cath. Angl. 392/1 A Trenket, ansorium. 1486 Bk. St. Albans f vij, A Trynket of Corueseris [= Shoemakers]. 1530 Palsgr. 283/1 Trynket a cordwayners toole. 1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Tranket kyllell krydd, Trenket. [Cf. 1611 Cotgr., Trenchet de cordoüannier, a Shoo⁓makers cutting-knife.] |