subs. (old).—In pl. = the extreme Protestant section of early Reformation days: cf. QUAKER.
1705. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, I. x. 21. As thus I strol’d along the street, Such gangs and parcels did I meet Of these quaint primitive dissemblers, In old queen Bess’s days call’d TREMBLERS; For their sham shaking, and their shivering.
See KNEE-TREMBLER.
