thraame

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English tramme, from Old French traime, traimme, trame.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪raːm/, /t̪rɑːm/

Noun

thraame (plural thraamès)

  1. The end piece in the shafts of a cart.
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;
      Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72
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