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Tray, Tra(e, n.¹ [ME treȝe (a1200), trey, tray (both c1450, north.), OE treᵹa, ON tregi.] Trouble, pain, vexation. Chiefly in collocation with Ten(e n. 2.1375 Barb. xviii 233.
For to weng him … Off tray of trawaill & of tene That done … till him had bene a1400 Leg. S. xliii 252.
That lyf is that lestis ay, In hewine, but othir tene or tray c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus i 375.
Lufe oft turnis hir feiris to tray and tene 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8049.
A ȝoung clerk … Quha wrocht neuer to hir ȝit tray nor tene a1568 Bann. MS 16b/14.
My transgressioun … tormentis me with tray and tene a1568 Bann. MS 35b/22.
Tra a1570-86 Maitl. F. 400/50.
Thai wirk him mekle tray and tene a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1056.
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b. Discord.c1450-2 Howlat 760 (A).
The trumpe, and the talburn, the tympane but tray