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hip's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.

One who trinkets. [Obs.]

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

A trinket. See Bauble.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

rn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.

A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

A heap or store. [Obs.] Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck. Massinger. Between decks. See under Between. -- Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders.…

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

A trifle; a trinket; a token. [Obs.] Spenser.

A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack. [R.] They'll pull ye all to pieces for your whimwhams. Bear. & Fl.