The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.Gomme, Alice Bertha
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.
Gomme, Alice Bertha
Folklore -- Great Britain; Games -- Great Britain
In the Benefit of the Auncient Bathes of Buckstones, compiled by John
Jones at the King’s Mede, nigh Darby, 1572, 4to. p. 12, we read: “The
ladyes, gentle woomen, wyves, and maydes, maye in one of the galleries
walke; and if the weather bee not aggreeable too theire expectacion,
they may haue in the ende of a benche eleuen holes made, intoo the which
to trowle pummetes, or bowles of leade, bigge, little, or meane, or also
of copper, tynne, woode, eyther vyolent or softe, after their owne
discretion; the pastyme _troule-in-madame_ is termed.” Probably similar
to “Nine Holes.”
Trounce-Hole
A game at ball resembling trap, but having a hole in the ground for the
trap, a flat piece of bone for a trigger, and a cudgel for a
bat.—Norfolk, Holloway’s _Dictionary of Provincialisms_.
See “Trunket.”
Troy Town
A game in which a plan of a labyrinth is drawn on a slate and presented
as a puzzle by boys to their schoolfellows for them to find a way into
the central citadel. It appears to owe its origin to the mediæval mazes
or labyrinths called “Troy Towns,” or “Troy Walls,” many of which
existed in different parts of England and Wales. It appears that games
connected with the midsummer festivals were held in these labyrinths.
This may, perhaps, account for the origin of this puzzle being
considered a game. For accounts of labyrinths or mazes called “Troy
Towns,” see _Notes and Queries_, 1st series, xi. 132, 193; 2nd series,
v. 211-213; 8th series, iv. 96, 97; in which many references are given;
_Tran. Cymmrodorion Soc._, 1822, i. 67-69; Roberts’ _Cambrian
Antiquities_ (in which is a plan), 212, 213; and _Folk-lore Journal_, v.
45.
Truncher
A game requiring dexterity. A young man lies flat, resting only on his
toes at a certain mark at one extremity and on a trencher in each hand
at the other. He then tries to reach out the trenchers as far as
possible, and if not held at the right angle and edgewise, down they go
and he is defeated.—Dickinson’s _Cumberland Glossary_.
Trunket
A game at ball played with short sticks, and having a hole in the ground
in lieu of stumps or wickets as in “Cricket”; and with these exceptions,
and the ball being “cop’d,” instead of bowled or trickled on the ground,
it is played in the same way; the person striking the ball must be
caught out, or the ball must be deposited in the hole before the stick
or cudgel can be placed there.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_.
See “Cudgel,” “Trounce Hole.”
Truss
A boy’s game like “Leap-Frog.”—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_.
Tuilyie-wap
A childish amusement in Teviotdale, in which a number of boys take hold
of each other’s hands and wrap themselves round the one who is at the
head; clasping themselves as firmly together as possible, and every one
pushing till the mass falls over.—Jamieson.
See “Bulliheisle,” “Eller Tree,” “Snail-Creep,” “Wind the Bush Faggot.”
Turn, Cheeses, Turn
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