Obs. Also 6 trankett. [Origin and history obscure.
App. a local word of Cheshire and Lancashire; possibly a particular use of prec.; but according to Ray, 1691, from Welsh trànked. Owen Pugh (1832) has this word as ‘tranced an earthen vessel or cup, such a cup with a handle, as is in common use’; but no etymology of the word is known in Welsh, and it may have been borrowed from a neighboring Eng. dialect.]
A small drinking vessel; a cup, mug; a porringer.
1541–2. Will W. Davenport (Bramhall, nr. Stockport) in Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (Chetham Soc., 1857), I. 80. In ye kechen … xij pottengers, xij salsers, xv trankettis, iij potthookis.
1621. Gill, Logon. Angl. (ed. 2), 37. Trinkets, instrumenta doliariorum quibus vinum ab uno vase exhauritur in aliud.
1691. Ray, N. C. Words (E.D.S.), Counterfeits and Trinkets, porringers and saucers. Chesh. Ibid., Trinket, a porringer. Chesh. from Welsh trànked.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Trinkets, Porringers.
c. 1705. De Foe, True Relat. Appar. Mrs. Veal, Wks. 1840, V. 348. I’ll warrant you, this mad fellow … has broke all your trinkets. But, says Mrs. Bargrave, I’ll get something to drink [tea] in, for all that.
