Reverse Dictionary: TR – TRAL

TRACE, TRACED – NOUNS
– a slight sketch, trace, touch, etc. of something SKIFF 1839 Sc.
– a suggestion; a slight trace or touch of something TANG 1593
– what is traced by hand MANU-TRACT 1660 obs.

TRACK (path) – ADJECTIVES
– of a track or trail: beaten, trodden BERRIED 1382 obs.

TRACK (path) – NOUNS
– a narrow track or path RACK a1400-50 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– a track DRIFT a1711 poetic usage rare
– a track, a path; the road, the way PAD 1567 orig. sl., now also Eng. dial.
– a track, a road FARE 1509 obs.
– a track or trail on land WAKE 1851 rare
– a track, path, or course, esp. a steep and narrow one RAKE Bk1905 Eng. dial.

TRACK (footprint, rut) – NOUNS
– FEETING footprints, tracks …1663 Amer. dial.
– FEETNING footprints, tracks …1966 Amer. dial.
– FUSE the track of an animal …1611 obs. rare
– LAST a footstep, track, trace …971 obs.
– RACK the track made by an animal, esp. that of a deer, as marked by gaps in hedges, etc. …1611
– RAT the track of a wheel in a road; a rut …B1900 Sc.

TRACK (footprint, rut) – VERBS
– BLIND THE TRAIL to conceal tracks or give them the appearance of going in a different direction …1968 Amer. dial.
– FAND to enquire; to seek, to look for; to enquire into a matter; to search a place, to examine a track …c1225 obs.
– FARE to track footsteps; to detect traces …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– PAD to track by the pad or footmarks …1861
– PUG to track (esp. game) by following footprints or another spoor …M16

TRACKER, TRACKING – ADJECTIVES
– pert. to a tracker or tracking ICHNEUTIC 1838 rare

TRACKER etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– a tracker PUGGY L19 rare

TRACTABLE – ADJECTIVES
– tractable GAINFUL Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– tractable, docile, easy to manage; good-tempered, willing, obliging GAIN 1809 Eng. dial.
– tractable or yielding in bearing or disposition WALDIN 1535 Sc. obs.

TRADE, TRADER, TRADING – NOUNS
– BUTTER AND EGG DAY a day to trade produce …1965 Amer. dial.
– DEAL a business transaction; a trade or a bargain …1838 US
– DEAL an underhand or secret transaction; a trade of questionable legality; a mutually beneficial commercial or political arrangement …1881 US sl.
– FACTORY an establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country; a merchant company’s trading station …1582
– FACULTY that in which anyone is skilled; an art, trade, occupation, profession …c1386 obs. exc. arch.
– GAIT one’s trade or occupation …M19 US sl.
– NAVIGATION shipping business; trade carried on by sea or water …1617 obs.
– NEED-DOING trading, traffic …1382 obs.
– NEGOTIATION trading, traffic …1601 obs.
– RACKET a job, trade, or profession …1891 UK sl.
– STREET, THE a centre of trade or exchange; in the US., Wall Street …1612 sl.

TRADE etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BAYPARREE a petty trader or dealer …Bk1886 Anglo-Indian
– HABERDASHER a trader …1311
– INTERLOPER an unlicensed trader …1627 sl.
– KURVEYOR a travelling trader in South Africa …1885 S. Afr.
– MONGER a merchant, trader, dealer, or trafficker, frequently of a specified commodity; from the 16th century, a person engaged in a petty or disreputable trade or traffic …a975
– MONGSTER a trader, a dealer; sometimes as the final element, as ‘flour-mongster’ …1281 obs.
– NEED-DOER a trader …1382 obs.
– NEGOTIANT a merchant or trader …1768 obs.
– NEGOTIATOR a trader, a business man …1598 obs.
– OCCUPIER one who employs money or goods in trading; a trader, dealer, merchant …1509 obs.
– PACKMAN an itinerant trader who carries goods in a pack for sale; a peddler, a hawker …1571
– PACK-PEDDLER;  PACK-PEDLAR an itinerant trader who travels with a pack of items for sale …1859 chiefly Amer.
– PARLAMAREE a street-trader’s accomplice who encourages the crowd by pretending to be a customer …Bk2004 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘gee’
– SHONK a trader or a peddler …19C sl.
– SHONKEY;  SHONKY a trader or a peddler …19C sl.
– SMOUSE an itinerant trader …1850 S. Africa
– VENTURER one who undertakes or shares in a commercial or trading venture, especially by sending goods or ships beyond seas; a merchant-venturer …1557

TRADE etc. – VERBS
– MAKE MARKET to trade, to buy and sell …1340 obs.
– NEGOTIATE to do business or trade; to traffic …1601 obs.
– NIFFER to exchange, to barter, to trade …1719 Sc. 
– OCCUPY to employ money or capital in trading; to lay out, to invest, to trade with; to deal in …1526 obs.
– PACK UP SHOP to cease trading …2003 UK sl.
– PUT UP THE SHUTTERS to stop trading for the day, or permanently; to announce oneself a bankrupt …1888
– SHIFT to trade horse or cattle …1914 Amer. dial.
– WORK to go about a place begging, selling, stealing, etc.; to ply one’s often-dishonest trade …1851 Amer. sl.
– YAG to act as a peddler; to trade …Bk1905 Sc.

TRADESMAN – NOUNS
– WAREHOUSE a tradesman’s inner or back shop …1580 obs.

TRADESMAN – NOUNS, PERSON
– APRON-MAN a tradesman, a mechanic …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLUE APRON a person who wears a blue apron for work, esp. a tradesman …1629 obs., sometimes derogatory
– CHEAPJACK a peddling tradesman …Bk1896 sl.
– FABRICANT one who fabricates, constructs, or fashions anything – a maker or manufacturer – a working tradesman …1757 rare
– MASTER-MAN an artisan or tradesman who sets up for himself; an employer; an overlooker, a ruler, a governor …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.

TRADING CARD – NOUNS
– a trading card TICKET 1975 Amer. dial.

TRADITION, TRADITIONAL – ADJECTIVES
– BACK well-established, traditional, tried and tested …1930s African-American sl.
– WHITE-BREAD very traditional, ordinary, and unadventurous in one’s tastes or values …Bk1995 US sl.

TRADITION etc. – NOUNS
– CABBALA an unwritten tradition …1641 obs.
– CUSTOMARY the customs of a country, society, etc., collectively; a body of customs or traditions …1796 obs. rare
– THREAP a tradition, legend; an oft-repeated saying; a report …1815 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THREEN;  THRENE a story or tradition of a ghostly and generally superstitious nature …1720 Sc.

TRADITION etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– FART-HEAD a conservative, traditional old person …1990s sl.

TRAFFIC (vehicles) – ADJECTIVES
– CREEP-AND-CUSS of car traffic: extremely congested …1964 US sl.
– NOSE TO TAIL one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic …a1834

TRAFFIC (vehicles) – NOUNS
– CIRCULATION traffic …2001 Can. sl.
– DOUGHNUT a traffic roundabout …1981 UK sl.
– GAPER-BLOCK;  GAPERS’ BLOCK a traffic problem created by motorists slowing down to gawk at an accident …1961 US sl.
– MALFUNCTION JUNCTION an area characterized by exasperating and confused activity; a bewildering or heavily congested highway intersection; a traffic jam …1975 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY MAZE a confusing, complicated traffic interchange …1962 US sl.
– PASS, THE the people or vehicles going past; pedestrian traffic …1916 Amer. dial.
– PASSING the people or vehicles going past …1871 Amer. dial.
– POACHED EGG ‘a yellow-coloured “silent cop” placed in the centre of intersections as a guide to traffic’ …M20 Aust. sl.
– SILENT POLICEMAN a construction or device used to direct the flow or speed of traffic …1920 Amer. dial.
– SNARL-UP a chaotic mess; often applied to a near-gridlock in a traffic system …1960 UK sl.
– VEHICULATION conveyance by means of a vehicle or vehicles; vehicular activity or traffic …1834

TRAFFIC (vehicles) – NOUNS, PERSON
– GAY GORDON a traffic warden …1992 US rhyming sl.

TRAFFIC (vehicles) – VERBS
– GET YOUR NOSE BENT to be convicted of a traffic violation …1962 US sl.

TRAFFIC (trade) – NOUNS
– MART buying and selling; traffic; bargaining; also, a bargain …1568 obs.
– NEED-DOING trading, traffic …1382 obs.
– NEGOTIATION trading, traffic …1601 obs.

TRAFFIC (trade) – NOUNS, PERSON
– RUNNER someone who traffics in illicit liquor, drugs, etc. …1930 sl., chiefly US

TRAFFIC (trade) – VERBS
– CAUPONATE to deal like a huckster with; to traffic in for the sake of gain …1653 obs.
– MART to make merchandise of; to traffic in …1589 obs.
– NEGOTIATE to do business or trade; to traffic …1601 obs.

TRAFFIC COP – see POLICE

TRAFFIC LIGHT – NOUNS
– a traffic light SEMAPHORE 1965 Amer. dial.
– a traffic light of any colour RED LIGHT 1957 Amer. dial.
– the chaotic movement of pedestrians as soon as traffic lights permit THE SCRAMBLE 1984 Aust. sl.

TRAFFIC TICKET – NOUNS
– a traffic ticket; a summons BLUE PAPER 20C Aust. & NZ sl.
– a traffic ticket; a summons BLUEY 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.

TRAFFIC TICKET – NOUNS, PERSON
– a person who has been given a traffic ticket; used ironically LIFER 1984 US sl.

TRAGIC – ADJECTIVES
– tragic; full of tragedy; calamitous TRAGEDIOUS 1494 obs.

TRAIL (path) – ADJECTIVES
– BERRIED of a track or trail: beaten, trodden …1382 obs.

TRAIL (path) – NOUNS
– BAJA a steep descent, road, or trail …1968 Amer. dial.
– BAJADA a steep descent, road, or trail …1866 Amer. dial.
– BLIND PATH a trail with indistinct markings, or signs …1843 Amer. dial.
– BLIND TRAIL a trail with indistinct markings, or signs …1843 Amer. dial.
– LEAD a path; a garden path; a trail; an alley …1590
– TRACE a path, a trail, a country road …1783 Amer. dial.
– WAKE a track or trail on land …1851 rare

TRAIL (path) – VERBS
– PACK THE TRAIL to go on trail, whether on horseback or on foot …c1870 Aust. colloq.

TRAIL (drag) – VERBS
– DAG to trail in the dew, wet, or mire; to bedraggle …1884 Eng. dial.
– DALLACK to wear clothes roughly or disorderly; to wear out; to drag or trail carelessly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HARL to drag: usually with the notion of friction or scraping of the ground; to pull, to tug; to trail along the ground; to haul …c1290 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HARL to drag or trail oneself; to go with dragging feet …1500-20 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– LABBER to trail in the dirt; to draggle …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– RAKE to drag, to trail …1914 Sc.
– REAP to gather up dirt by trailing on the ground; to trail in the mud …1884 Eng. dial.
– TAG to hang down or trail like a tag …1617 obs.
– TAG to trail or drag behind; to follow closely …1676
– VAG to trail on the ground …1892 Eng. dial.

TRAILING – ADJECTIVES
– DAGGLING trailing in the wet …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– LALLOPPING hanging down, trailing …1867 Eng. dial.

TRAILING – ADVERBS
– SCLIFF;  SKLIFF with a trailing, shuffling motion …1873 Sc.

TRAILING – NOUNS
– FATTRALS ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular …1786 Sc. obs.
– HARL(E) the act of dragging or trailing …1840 Sc.

TRAIN – NOUNS (also see RAILROAD)
– ABORTION EXPRESS a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum …1940 Aust. sl.
– ACCORDION a train made up of Pullman cars …1925 sl.
– ANCHOR a caboose …1977 Amer. dial.
– ANIMAL CAR a caboose …1938 Amer. railroad usage
– APE WAGON among railroad workers: a caboose …1946 Amer. dial.
– ARMSTRONG a tool or machine operated or serviced by muscular strength rather than machinery; a hand-stoked locomotive …1923 Amer. sl.
– BAZOO WAGON a caboose …1977 Amer. railroad usage
– BED HOUSE a caboose …1945 Amer. railroad usage
– BLACK SNAKE a train of coal cars …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BOUNCER on the railroad: a caboose …1945 Amer. dial.
– BOWLING ALLEY a hand-fired coal-burning locomotive …1940 Amer. railroad usage
– BRAIN BOX a railroad caboose …1977 Amer. dial.
– BRAIN CAGE a railroad caboose …1945 Amer. dial.
– BRAIN WAGON a railroad caboose …1977 Amer. dial.
– BRASS, THE the locomotive bell …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BUGGY a railroad caboose …1899 Amer. dial.
– BULL a locomotive engine …a1889 US
– BULLGINE a locomotive or steam engine …1846 Amer. dial.
– BULLJINE a locomotive or steam engine …1890 Amer. dial.
– BUM-SICK TRAIN a train with a crew hostile to tramps …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– CABIN the caboose on a railroad train …1906 Amer. dial.
– CABIN CAR the caboose on a railroad train …1879 Amer. dial.
– CABOOSE BOUNCE a train consisting of nothing more than an engine and a brake-van (caboose) …1929 US sl.
– CABOOSE HOP a short train consisting of only and engine and a caboose …1940 Amer. dial.
– CAGE a brake-van (caboose) …1931 US sl.
– CALAMITY JANE a train …Brit. rhyming sl.
– CALLIOPE a steam locomotive …1929 US railroad jargon
– CANNONBALL a fast or express train; also, facetiously, a slow train or branch railroad …1888 Amer. dial.
– CARAVAN a railway train, esp. a train expressly chartered to convey people to a price fight …Bk1891 boxing usage
– CHARIOT a caboose; occasionally a passenger car …1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
– CHATTANOOGA a railroad train …1940s Amer. sl.
– CHIPPY on the railroad: a narrow-gauge track, car, or train …1918 Amer. sl.
– DANGLER an express or freight train …1910s tramps’ sl.
– DECK the roof of a train or stagecoach …M19 sl.
– DINKEY a small locomotive; a train pulled by such a locomotive; a small branch railway …1874 Amer. dial.
– DINKY a small locomotive; a train pulled by such a locomotive; a small branch railway …1874 Amer. dial.
– DOGBOX a type of small and basic compartment in a railway carriage …1905 Aust. sl.
– DRAG a freight train. esp. a slow one …1925 US sl.
– FLOPHOUSE a brakevan (caboose) …1977 US sl.
– GALLOPING GOOSE a train, car, or plane that runs badly …1910s US sl.
– GLORY WAGON a caboose …1945 Amer. dial.
– GO-CART a caboose …1945 Amer. dial.
– GULLY JUMPER a train …1942 US jocular
– GUTS the undercarriage of railroad trains on which tramps hitched a ride …1910s US criminals’ sl.
– HACK a caboose …1916 Amer. dial.
– HAIL AND RAIN a train …1920s rhyming sl.
– HAY-BURNER an old or primitive locomotive …1916 Amer. dial.
– HAY WAGON a brakevan (caboose) …1977 US sl.
– HEARSE a caboose …1931 Amer. dial.
– HOBO LIMITED a train with a crew friendly to tramps …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HOBOLAND a train with a crew friendly to tramps …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HORSTILE TRAIN a train with a crew hostile to tramps …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HUMPBACK JOB a local freight train …1946 US sl.
– HUT a brakevan (caboose) …1946 US sl.
– IRON-HORSE a locomotive …Bk1896 sl.
– JACK a locomotive …1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
– JIGGER a slow freight train …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JOHNNY O’BRIEN a slow freight train …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JOHN O’BRIEN a boxcar; a freight train …1914 Amer. hobo sl.
– KETTLE a locomotive, esp. a steam locomotive …1926 Amer. dial.
– KITCHEN a caboose …1940 Amer. dial.
– LOCO a locomotive …1833 Amer. dial.
– MEET a place where two or more trains come together, esp. from opposite directions …1916 Amer. dial.
– MEXICAN STANDOFF a collision that happens when two trains travelling in opposite directions on the same track are unable to stop before they collide …1969 Amer. dial.
– MILL a steam locomotive …1926 Amer. railroad & loggers’ usage
– MILL KETTLE a locomotive, esp. a steam locomotive …1932 Amer. dial.
– MONKEY CAGE a caboose …1950 Amer. dial.
– MONKEY HOUSE, THE a caboose …1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
– MONKEY HUT a caboose …1977 Amer. dial.
– MONKEY WAGON a caboose …1977 Amer. dial.
– MUCK-TRAIN a commissariat train …c1850 Brit. army sl.
– OMNIBUS TRAIN a railway train stopping at all the stations on the route …1893
– OWL TRAIN a train that runs at night …1856 Amer. sl.
– PALACE a caboose …1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
– PARLOR in railroading: a caboose …1931 Amer. dial.
– PEDDLER a local or slow freight train …1926 Amer. railroading usage
– PENTHOUSE a brakevan (caboose) cupola …1977 US sl.
– PERAMBULATOR a brakevan (caboose) …1977 US sl.
– PIG a railroad locomotive …1931 Amer. dial.
– PILOT one of the low front wheels of a locomotive …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PILOT WHEEL one of the low front wheels of a locomotive …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PUFFER a train …Brit. sl.
– PUFFING BILLY a locomotive …L19 sl.
– PUFF-PUFF a steam locomotive; a railway train …c1870 sl.
– QUILL a steam-locomotive whistle …1940 Amer. dial.
– RAT a train …1910s UK criminals’ sl.
– RAT a freight train …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– RATTLE a passenger train or carriage of the train …1862 UK sl.
– RATTLER a freight train or carriage of a train …1848 US sl.
– RATTLER a passenger train or carriage of the train …1859 UK sl.
– ROD a freight train …1930s African-American sl.
– RODS the metalwork (struts, supports, etc.) found under a railroad coach or wagon …1900s tramps’ sl.
– SALOON a caboose …1977 US sl.
– SCOOT a shuttle train …c1870 Amer. dial.
– SCOOT TRAIN a shuttle train …1907 Amer. dial.
– SHANTY in railroading: a caboose …1931 Amer. dial.
– SHOOFLY a local train …1907 Amer. dial.
– SHORT DOG a local train or bus …1955 Amer. dial.
– SIDE-DOOR PULLMAN a freight car …L19 US tramps’ usage
– SIDERODROMOPHOBIA fear of train travel
– SILENT DEATH an electric train …c1950 railwaymen’s usage
– SMOKOLOTIVE a locomotive …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SNOOZER a Pullman sleeping carriage on a passenger train …1975 US sl.
– STRING OF BOXES a train of boxcars …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STRING OF VARNISH a passenger train …1945 Amer. dial.
– TEA KETTLE a locomotive, esp. a steam locomotive …1931 Amer. dial.
– TEAPOT a French locomotive …World War I Amer. sl.
– TIN HARE a train, esp. a rail-motor, i.e. a small passenger train consisting of the engine and 1 coach …1930s sl.
– TOONERVILLE CAR a small, run-down, or unreliable railroad, train, railcar, or trolley …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOONERVILLE EXPRESS a small, run-down, or unreliable railroad, train, railcar, or trolley …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOONERVILLE TROLLEY a small, run-down, or unreliable railroad, train, railcar, or trolley …1919 Amer. dial.
– TRAIN-SURFING riding illegally on the roof of a train for the thrills …1980s US sl.
– VAN a brakevan, a caboose …1977 US sl.
– VARNISH on the railways: a passenger train …1946 US sl.
– VARNISH CAR a railroad passenger car …1927 Amer. dial.
– VARNISHED BOXES a passenger train …1945 Amer. dial.
– VARNISHED CAR a railroad passenger car …1885 Amer. dial.
– VARNISHED JOB a passenger train …1945 Amer. dial.
– VARNISHED SHOT a passenger train …1945 Amer. dial.
– VARNISHED WAGONS a passenger train …1945 Amer. dial.
– VELVET a passenger train carriage …1977 US sl.
– WAGON-LIT a sleeping coach on a Continental train …1884
– WALKING TRAIN a local train …1920s W. Indies sl.
– WILD-CAT a locomotive and tender running without cars …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– ZULU a train for either emigrants or immigrants …B1931 Can. railroadmen’s usage
– ZULU CAR a railroad boxcar used for transporting emigrants and their belongings to the western portions of the US …1848 Amer. dial.
 
TRAIN – NOUNS, PERSON
– BABY LIFTER a brakeman on a passenger train …1946 US sl.
– BABY-SNATCHER a brakeman on a passenger train …1920 US railroad usage
– BRAKEY, BREAKY a brakesman on a train …1887 US colloq.
– BUTCH a vendor of newspapers on railroad trains …1919 US sl.
– BUTCHER a vendor of newspapers, peanuts, candy, etc., esp. aboard a passenger train or at a sporting event …1880 US sl.
– CAPTAIN the conductor or guard of a train …1862 Amer. usage
– DEADHEAD an empty freight car or freight train; thus one who rides it …1938 Amer. dial.
– EAGER-EYE a locomotive engineer who must be constantly on the lookout for signals and obstacles …1943 Amer. dial.
– GREASEBURNER the fireman on a locomotive …1920 Amer. dial.
– HOGSHEAD an engineer of a locomotive …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– JUGGLER a member of a train crew or loads and unloads freight at stops on a run …1946 US sl.
– MASTER, THE the conductor of a train …1931 Can. railroadmen’s sl.
– NEWS BUTCHER a seller of newspapers, sweets, etc., on a train …L19 US sl.
– PASSENGER STIFF a railway passenger …1977 US sl.
– PEANUT BUTCHER a vendor of newspapers aboard a passenger train …1902 US sl.
– SHACK(S) a brakeman or guard on a train …1899 Amer. sl.
– SILK GLOVE a guard on a passenger train; not praise …1977 US sl.
– TALLOW POT a fireman on a locomotive … 1914 US tramp & railroad usage
– TENDER the guard of a train …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TRACK-BASHER a specialist trainspotter who travels little-used sections of the rail network …2003 UK sl.
– WAGON-SPOTTER a trainspotter who specialises in ‘collecting’ freight wagons …2003 UK sl.
– ZULU an immigrant with all his possessions travelling by rail to his new home in the West …Bk1978 railroad usage 
 
TRAIN – VERBS
– BALL THE JACK to move rapidly or swiftly; to make haste; to go fast (said esp. of a railroad train); to work swiftly or energetically …1913 Amer. sl.
– BEAT ONE’S WAY to make one’s way by stealing rides on railroad trains, usually in freight cars …1873 Amer. sl.
– BREAK OUT to break or train an animal to work …1923 Amer. dial.
– BUM to travel on a train without a ticket …1896 US colloq.
– DECK to ride on the roof of a freight car …L19 US tramps’ sl.
– DITCH to throw off a moving train …L19 US tramps’ sl.
– DYNAMITE to stop a train suddenly …1977 US sl.
– FLIP A RATTLER to catch a train …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GET IN A JACKPOT to be involved in an accident or dangerous situation with a train …1970 Amer. railroad usage
– GO HIGH to ride on top of a train …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HOOK to secure a ride for oneself, as by hitchhiking; to steal a ride on a train …1930 Amer. sl.
– HOP A RATTLER to catch a train …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LIGHT UP to board a train illegally …1900s  US criminals sl.
– MACE to avoid paying one’s train fare …1920s UK criminals’ sl.
– MACE THE RATTLER to travel by train without buying a ticket …L19 sl.
– NAB to steal a ride on a train …1920s US tramps’ sl.
– NAIL to catch or steal a ride on a freight train …1907 Amer. tramps’ sl.
– NAIL A RATTLER to steal a ride on a moving train …L19 US tramps’ sl.
– SCALE to ride illicitly free on a train, tram, bus …c1920 Aust. sl.
– SCALE A TRAIN to board and ride a train without paying …1910s Aust. & NZ sl.

TRAIN (succession of people, vehicles, etc.) – NOUNS
– a train of followers, attendants, or servants; a retinue SUITE 1673
– a train, retinue; a company of followers; a train SUIT 1297 arch. or Eng. dial.

TRAIN, TRAINED,TRAINING (teach) – ADJECTIVES
– MADE of soldiers; also, of horses, hounds, etc.: fully trained …1673

TRAIN etc. (teach) – NOUNS
– TIGHT good breeding; behaviour; bringing up, rearing, training, education …c888 obs.

TRAIN etc. (teach) – NOUNS, PERSON
– GAFFER among athletes: a trainer …1888 sl. obs.

TRAIN etc. (teach) – VERBS
– BREED to educate, to train, to bring up …Bk1911 Sc.
– DISCIPLINATE to discipline, to train, to teach …a1586 obs.
– EDOCTRINATE to teach thoroughly, to train …1625 obs. rare
– TIGHT to train, to discipline …a1000 obs.

TRAIN-BEARER – NOUNS, PERSON
– a train-bearer; a person whose job is to hold up the train of a robe or dress TAIL-BEARER 1598 obs.

TRAINSPOTTING – NOUNS, PERSON
– in trainspotting: an enthusiast who will travel for as far as possible in the train behind a specific locomotive BASHER 2003 UK sl.

TRAIPSE – VERBS
– to traipse around; to gad about; to run hither and thither TROLLOP;  TROLLOP ABOUT;  TROLLOP AROUND 1838 Amer. dial.

TRAIT – NOUNS
– a trait, a characteristic, good or bad; a distinctive mark, quality, or habit TACHE a1400-50 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– a trait, whim, or peculiarity, generally bad KEESTER 1929 Sc.

TRAIT – NOUNS, PERSON
– a person having the same common traits as others A SAME BREED OF PUP 1927 Amer. dial.

TRAITOR, TRAITOROUS – ADJECTIVES
– PRODITORIOUS treacherous, traitorous, perfidious; apt to betray or reveal what is hidden or in the mind; apt to disclose or make known …c1475 obs. or arch.

TRAITOR etc. – NOUNS
– QUARTERIZATION part of the punishment of a traitor, by dividing his body into four quarters …1727-41 obs. rare

TRAITOR etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BENEDICT ARNOLD a traitor …Bk1989
– BLUE LIGHT a traitor …US Civil War usage
– DINGO a contemptuous term for a person; a cheat, a scoundrel, a traitor, a coward …1928 Aust. sl.
– DOBBER an informant or traitor …Aust. sl.
– DOBBER-IN an informant or traitor …Aust. sl.
– DOG a traitor; one who is disloyal to associates …1846 US & Aust. sl.
– FALSE-LOON a traitor …1885 Eng. dial.
– FINK a traitor; one who is disloyal to associates …1894 US sl.
– GINK a traitor; an informer; a spy …1906 US criminals’ sl.
– JACKET-REVERSER a turncoat …Bk1896 sl. 
– RAT FINK a traitor; one who is disloyal to associates; someone who informs on you …1964 sl., chiefly US
– SCISSOR-BILL one regarded as a traitor to his class or associates …1913 Amer. dial.
– TRAITORESS a woman who is a traitor  
– TRAITRESS a woman who is a traitor …1400
– WARLOCK an oath-breaker, a traitor …a1023 obs.

TRAITOR etc. – VERBS
– BETRAISE;  BETRAISH to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent …c1374 obs.