dial. Inflected trigged, -ing. [Goes with TRIG sb.2: origin of both obscure.
(As Du. trekker has become in Eng. trigger, it is conceivable that Du. trekken ‘to draw a line’ might become trig; but nothing corroborative of such an origin has been found.)]
trans. To make a score on (the ground) for a player at bowls, quoits, etc., to stand at; also, to mark out (ground) with a line or shallow trench. Trig out, to mark out or trace, as a boundary line. Also absol.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trig,… to set a mark to stand at, in playing at Nine-pins.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Trigged, having a Mark set to stand in playing at Nine Pins.
1843. [implied in TRIGGER3].
1881. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Trig,… to make shallow furrows, or trigs, as between seed-beds for onions, carrots, etc.—‘I trigged the ground afore I put the seed in.’
1893. H. Pease, Borderland Stud., 36. Gravely he consulted with his ‘marrow’ (mate) who ‘trigged’ for him…, carefully noted the indicated line.
a. 1905. MS. Gloss. (Warwick), in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. Trig v.1, Plots of ground let for building are trigged out, i.e. the boundaries are marked by cutting a small trench in them.
1914. H. F. Rutter (M. Inst. C. E.), in Lett. I have been asked scores of times by a ganger [over navvies] ‘Could you come and trig out the centre line for us, Sir?’
