▪ I. trave, n. Obs. exc. dial.
[In sense 1, a. OF. trave beam: cf. It. trave beam:—L. trabem, acc. of trabs beam. Its application in sense 2 is difficult; but cf. F. entrave clog, fetter, shackle, hindrance, restraint.]
1. A (timber or wooden) beam.
| 1395 in Archæologia XXIV. 313 Pro cariagio de ij traves pro justes de hospicio. 1574 Richmond Wills (Surtees) 251, ix hogesheads in the buttrie with the gantrees and traves there. a 1701 Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 2 Mar. (1721) 7 For its Ceiling only some rude traves laid athwart it. Ibid. 28 Apr. (1732) 125 The Ceilings and Traves are..richly Painted. |
b. dial. ? One of the shafts of a cart, or the shafts collectively. Also attrib.
| 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words s.v., Horses harnessed ready for work, are said to be ‘in the trave’—or, ‘in the traves’. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., In phr. to be in the trave, of horses: to be harnessed ready for work. |
2. A frame or enclosure of bars in which a restive horse is placed to be shod: cf. travail n.2
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 96 She sproong as a colt doth in the traue. 1483 Cath. Angl. 391/2 Trave for to scho horse jn, ferratorium, ergasterium. 1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Traue, a place to shoe wilde horses in. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Trave (from the Fr. Travée, i. a bay of buildings), a trevise or little roome made purposely to shoo unbroken horses in. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trave, Travel, or Travise, a Place enclosed with Rails, to shooe an unruly Horse in. 1847–78 Halliwell, Trave, a frame into which farriers put unruly horses. |
† b. pl. See quot. 1706. Obs. rare—0.
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Traves, a kind of Shackles for a Horse that is taught to amble, or pace. 1726 in Dict. Rust. (ed. 3). |
▪ II. trave
dial. var. thrave, threave.