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Treadling
- verb - operate (machinery) by a treadle
- tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"
Tree Frog
- noun - any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes
- arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
Tree-Frog
- noun - any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes
- arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
Trembling
- verb - a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"
- move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways; "His hands were trembling when he signed the document"
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
Tremoring
- verb - shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
Trenching
- verb - cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"
- cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"
- dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"
- fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"
- impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"
- set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"
Trialling
- unknown - to test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance
Trickling
- verb - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"
Troubling
- verb - cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
Trouncing
- verb - a sound defeat
- beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- defeat heavily in a contest.
- punish
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows