dial. Also traunce. [f. TRANCE v.2] ? A skip, a dance; applied ironically, as in ‘a fine trance,’ to a long tedious walk or tramp, a long tiring round.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial., Wks. (1862), 40. I’ve had sitch o’ traunce this Morning as eh neer had c’meh live.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Trance, a tedious journey. Lanc.
1885. Cheshire Gloss., Traunce, a tedious journey. ‘He led me a fine traunce.’
