The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trant \Trant\, v. i. [Cf. OD. tranten to walk slowly, LG. & D. trant walk, pace.] To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle. [Written also traunt.] [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To walk; go about. 2 (context intransitive English) To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle. 3 (context intransitive English) To turn; play a trick. Etymology 2
n. A turn; trick; stratagem.
Usage examples of "trant".
I noticed then that Miss Trant was sitting in front of a pile of legal text books.
When the Thripps, mire etfils, had been shepherded out by their solicitor, Perfect, Miss Trant loitered and said she wanted my advice.
It seemed that Miss Trant had been entrusted with a brief for the prosecution, before that great tribunal, old Archibald McFee at the Dock Street Magistrates Court.
There was old Mother Wainscott, sitting beneath a pile of henna-ed hair in the dock, and there was old Archie McFee, looking desperately bored and gazing yearningly at the clock as Miss Trant with a huge pile of dusty law books in front of her and her glasses on the end of her nose, lectured him endlessly on the law relating to disorderly houses.
I sat smiling quietly, like a happy spider as Miss Trant walked into the web.
When I got to chambers the next morning I found Miss Phyllida Trant in my room, her glasses off, her eyes red and her voice exceedingly doleful.
If I had managed to cheer up Miss Trant, and even return her small nose to the legal grindstone, I had no luck with She Who Must Be Obeyed.
Miss Trant, sitting beside me in her virginal wig, waited with baited breath for my first question.
Erskine-Brown himself, but his ex-pupil Miss Phyllida Trant, and his two new pupils who sometimes dived into my room to borrow books and then shot out again like frightened rabbits.
Miss Trant looked up from the brief she was reading and gave me a smile.
I decided that the stage of her career had come when Miss Trant might benefit from some proper advice.
I went there with my old friend George Frobisher and saw that the watering hole was well filled, barristers at one end of the bar, including Erskine-Brown, Miss Trant and Guthrie Featherstone going walkabout among his loyal subjects, journalists at the other, and myself and George at one of the crowded tables in the snug.
Helena Trant loved Count Lokenberg and all difficulties were to be swept aside by the priest before whom they were to make their vows to love and cherish until death parted them.
I turned the ring on my finger and thought of the paper which I kept carefully in my bag which said that on the 20th July of the year 1860 Helena Trant had married Maximilian, Count Lokenberg, and the witnesses to their union were Ernst and Ilse Gleiberg.
I had been a pupil-Helena Trant who had always been in trouble through her irrepressible spirits and love of adventure.