treget

English

Etymology

From Middle English treget.

Noun

treget

  1. (obsolete) guile; trickery

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for treget in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old French tregeter (to throw around), ultimately from Latin trans- + jacere (to throw).

Noun

treget

  1. trickery
    • c. 1370s. Unknown, The Romaunt of the Rose. 6266-8.
      For, sith they coude not perceyve
      His treget and his crueltee,
      They wolde him folowe, al wolde he flee.

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