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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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TRICKER, n.2 Sc. form of Eng. trigger, now dial., a spar of wood put through or under a cart(wheel) to brake it on a slope, a prop. In Sc. jocular usage: a wooden leg.Edb. 1844 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie viii.:
The sailor's tricker snap't in twa, The sodger's glass ee struck the wa'.

[The form has been altered after Tricker, n.1 from the agent n. of Eng. trig, to make firm or secure, to prop up, poss. from O.N. tryggja, to make fast. See Trig, adj.]

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