S. Africa. [a. Du. trippelen, f. trippen to trip, skip.] intr. To go at a tripple.
1899. G. H. Russell, Under the Sjambok, iv. 49. They [Boers] … getting into their saddles, slowly trippled away (a kind of run, neither gallop, canter, or trot).
1903. Longm. Mag., Dec., 151. That easy hand canter usual in such Free State horses as do not tripple.
Hence Trippling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; also Trippler, a horse that tripples.
1901. Field, 9 March, 322/1. The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling,’ or, as we should style it, ambling.
1905. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 526/1. He could still hear the trippling patter of the other rider.
1909. R. Cullum, Compact, xi. 132. Can’t I even persuade you to ride my ‘tripler’?
