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▪ I. tricker1|ˈtrɪkə(r)|
[f. trick v. + -er1.]
1. One who plays tricks or practises trickery; a cheat, deceiver, trickster; also, one who plays a trick or prank.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 107 This tricke..Brought to this tricker nother muse nor mase. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 7 Leaue tricks to trickers. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 418 All the various species of politicians and trickers. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 135 These trickers unwittingly speak truth.
†2. One who tricks out, decks, or artfully adorns.
a1553C. Bansley Treat. xxx. (Percy Soc.) 8 A wanton tricker..Wyth a double fardyngale and a caped cassoc, moche lyke a players gowne. 1567Triall Treas. (1850) 24 She hath an amiable face; A tricker, a trimmer, in faith that she is, The goddess of wealth, prosperitie and bliss. 1600Kemp Nine Daies Wond. i. A iij, Caualiero Kemp..onely tricker of your Trill-lilles, and best bel-shangles betweene Sion and mount Surrey.
3. One who tricks a coat of arms.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie To Gentl. Inner Temple, I did alwaies abhor the nude title and bare skill of a Blazoner, things common to each painter and tricker of armes. 1688R. Holme Armoury i. 2/2 Every Painter, Tricker, or a meer Blazoner of Arms, will not serve to make..an absolute Herauld.
†4. Some tool used by burglars. Obs. rare.
1592Greene Art Conny catch. ii. D iij, He [the curber] hath his trickers, which are engines of Iron so cunningly wrought, that he wil cut a barre of Iron in two with them.
▪ II. ˈtricker2
early and dial. form of trigger n.1 (q.v.). Hence tricker-firelock, a hand fire-arm of the middle of the 17th c., discharged by pulling a trigger; tricker-lock, name in the 17th c. for a gun-lock furnished with a trigger, whether a match tricker-lock, or a wheel tricker-lock.
1629Schedule in Meyrick Antient Armour (1824) III. 100 For a match tricker-lock compleat..is. For a handle or guard of a tricker..vid. For furnishing and setting of a tricker lock in place of a feare lock, with a handle, tricker, and tricker pynnes. iis. vid. 1824Meyrick ibid. 88 The tricker-lock, I conceive, to be that furnished with a hair-trigger, as it is now called. 1855Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. XI. 255 Mr. G. Wright exhibited..a fine example of the lock of a Tricker firelock,..exhumed..from the battle-field of Worcester [1651]. The rising piece above the pan is furrowed, to facilitate the production of the sparks from the pyrites or flint. |
