a strand; _e.g._ Traeth-mawr (great strand); Traeth-bach (little strand); Trefdraeth (the dwelling on the strand), in Wales; Traeth-coch (red strand), in Anglesea. In Ireland: Tralee, Co. Derry, is from _Traigh-liath_ (the gray strand); Tranamadree (the strand of the dogs), Co. Cork; Ballintra, when it occurs on the coast, means the town on the strand, but inland it comes from _Baile-an-tsratha_ (the town on the river-holm); Ventry, Co. Kerry, is from _Fionn-traigh_ (white strand); as also Trabane, Trawane, and Trawbawn, which derive their names from the whitish colour of the sand; Fintray, a parish in Aberdeenshire on the R. Don, is also white strand; but Fintray, in Dumbartonshire, was formerly _Fyntref_ or _Fyntre_, probably the dwelling, _tre_, on the Fenach, which is the boundary-stream of the parish on one side; Traeth-Saith, in Wales, named after a mythological patriarch. [Sidenote: TRANK (Ger.),] a tank for watering animals; _e.g._ Kleintrank (little tank); Rosstrank (horse tank); Trankmühle (mill tank). [Sidenote: TRAWA (Sclav.),] grass; e.g. the Traun and the Trave (_i.e._ the grassy rivers); Traunkirchen (the church on the Traun); Traunik, Trawitz (the grassy place); Traunviertel (the district of the R. Traun), in Silesia and Austria. [Sidenote: TRE, or TREF (Cym.-Cel.), TREABHAIR (Gael.),] a dwelling, a town; _e.g._ Treago, anc. _Tref-y-goll_ (hazel-tree dwelling), in Monmouth; Tre-n-eglos (church town), in Cornwall; Tremaine (stone dwelling), Cornwall; _Tref-y-clawdd_ (the town of the dyke, _i.e._ Offa’s dyke), the Welsh name for Knighton, in Pembrokeshire; Oswestry might come naturally from this word, but the Welsh call it _Croes-Oswald_ (the place of St. Oswald’s martyrdom); Coventry, too, might be from the same root, but Camden says it is a corruption of _Conventria_ (the district of the convent); Daventry, abridged from _Dwy-avon-tre_ (the dwelling on the two rivers); Truro, _i.e._ _Tre-rhiw_ (the dwelling on the sloping bank, or on the stream); Redruth, in Cornwall, anc. _Tref-Derwydd_ (the Druid’s town); Trefrhiw (the town on the stream), in Caernarvon; Tremadoc (Madoc’s dwelling); Trecoid (the dwelling in the wood); Braintree, Co. Essex (hill dwelling); Dreghorn, in Ayrshire, anc. _Trequern_ (the dwelling near alder-trees); Thrisk, in Yorkshire, anc. _Tref-Ysk_ (the dwelling by the water); Tranent, in Mid Lothian, corrupt. from _Treabhairnant_ (the dwellings in the valley); Crailing, in Berwickshire, anc. _Traverlin_ (the dwellings on the pool); Tring, Co. Herts, anc. _Treungla_ or _Treangle_ (the village at the corner), Welsh _ongl_, Lat. _angulus_; Trelech (the dwelling at the stone, called Harold’s grave); Tre-Taliesin (the dwelling of Taliesin, the celebrated Welsh bard); Trenewydd (new dwelling), in Wales; Rhuddry, a parish in Glamorgan, probably corrupt. from _Yr-yw-tre_ (the yew-trees’ home); Tre’r Beirdd (bard’s town); Trefawr, Trefach (great and little town); Tredegar,