A common children’s game played in Lancashire; which, perhaps, may be the primitive form of “Trap.” It is played with a “pum,” a piece of wood about a foot long and two inches in diameter, and a “tribet,” a small piece of hard wood.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. See “Trap, Bat, and Ball.” Trippit and Coit A game formerly known under the appellation of “Trippets,” Newcastle. It is the same as “Trip-cat” in some southern counties. The trippet is a small piece of wood obtusely pointed—something like a shoe—hollow at one end, and having a tail a little elevated at the other, which is struck with a buckstick. It is also called “Buckstick, Spell-and-Ore.”—Brockett’s _North Country Words_. See also Dickinson’s _Cumberland Glossary_. Halliwell’s _Dictionary_ says—The game is almost peculiar to the North of England. There is a poem called “The Trip Match” in _Mather’s Songs_. See “Nur and Spel,” “Trap, Bat, and Ball.” Trip and Go Trip and go, heave and hoe, Up and down, to and fro; From the town to the grove, Two and two let us rove; A-maying, a-playing, Love hath no gainsaying; So merrily trip and go, So merrily trip and go. —Halliwell’s _Nursery Rhymes_, cccxlviii. A game rhyme, but undescribed. Trip-trout A game in which a common ball is used instead of the cork and feathers in “Shuttlecock.”—(Kinross) Jamieson. See “Shuttlefeather,” “Teesty Tosty.” Troap A game played by two persons, with bandies or sticks hooked at the end, and a bit of wood called a nacket. At each end of the ground occupied a line is drawn. He who strikes off the nacket from the one line, tries to drive it as near the other as possible. The antagonist who stands between him and the goal tries to throw back with his hand the nacket to the line from which the other has struck it. If he does this he takes the place of the other. If not, the distance is measured between the striking point and the nacket with one of the sticks used in striking, and for every length of the stick one is counted against the caster.—(Angus) Jamieson. The editor of Jamieson adds that the name must have been originally the same as the English Trap, although in this game a ball is used instead of a nacket, and it is struck off as in cricket. Troco, Trucks This was an old English game formerly known as “trucks.” Strutt, p. 270, 299 (who gives an illustration of it), considers this game to be the original of billiards. Professor Attwell says, _Notes and Queries_, 7th series, xii. 137, “This game was played at Nassau House School, Barnes, for twenty years. It is played on a lawn with balls, cues, and rings.” Troule-in-Madame