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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

trangrain

a strange thing,

trangame

a toy. See

Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle.

[Cant & Obs.]

Arbuthnot.

Noun.

An odd thing intricately contrived. [It is said to be a cant word, and is not used.]

Trannel, used by Moxon, is a mistake for tree-nail, pronounced by ship-builders trunnel.

trangram ‎(plural trangrams)

(obsolete) Something intricately contrived; a puzzle.
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