local. Also 6–7 tret(t)le, 6, 9 truttle. [Origin obscure: usually held to be related to TREDDLE] pl. The rounded droppings of sheep, hares, rabbits, etc.

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1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health, cxii. 42 b. If the egestion … doth loke like shepes tretles, there is abundance of coler adusted.

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1598.  Florio, Tronzoli, the dung or truttles of any cattle, as of sheepe.

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1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, II. xii. 217. Break three or fower trottles of a goate or sheepe.

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1639.  T. de Gray, Compl. Horsem., 62. His doung … hee putteth forth with round and hard trattles.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Trattles,… the small pellets of the dung of sheep, hares, rabbits, &c.

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1865.  Cockayne, in Sax. Leechd., II. Gloss. s.v. Tyrdelu, Called sheeps tredles in Somerset, trattles in Suffolk.

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1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Trottles, the dung of sheep, lambs, or rabbits.

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1886.  S. W. Linc. Gloss., Treddles, Truddles, Truttles.

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