Obs. Also 5–6 trynket. [a. OF. (Picard) trenquet, OF. trenchet, f. trenquer, trencher to cut: see TRENCH v.] A knife; spec. a shoemaker’s knife.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 502/1. Trenket, sowtarys knyfe, anxorium.
1483. Cath. Angl., 392/1. A Trenket, ansorium.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, f vij. A Trynket of Corueseris [= Shoemakers].
1530. Palsgr., 283/1. Trynket a cordwayners toole.
1547. Salesbury, Welsh Dict., Tranket kyllell krydd, Trenket.
[Cf. 1611. Cotgr., Trenchet de cordoūannier, a Shoomakers cutting-knife.]
