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Treacle v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Treacle v. [f. prec. sb.]

1   † 1.  trans. To make into a ‘treacle’; to give the qualities of a ‘treacle’ to. Obs. rare–1.

2 c. 1500.  Bollard, trans. Godfredus on Palladius. To make a vyne treaclede.

3   2.  To smear or spread with treacle; to dose with (brimstone and) treacle; to sweeten or render palatable with treacle (also fig.).

4 1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., viii. A long row of boys waiting … to be treacled.

5 1873.  Daily News, 11 Nov., 5/4. The pill may be treacled with apparent concessions.

6 1906.  Daily Chron., 28 March, 1/2. ‘Treacle’ thieves … treacled the window…, broke the glass with a brick, and stole eight trays of jewellery.

7 Mod.  We treacle the trunks of trees, in order to attract moths.

8   b.  To catch (moths) by attracting them with treacle or the like spread on trees.

9 1905.  Daily Chron., 29 June, 8/1. Country rambles with long-handled nets and cool summer night trips, ‘treacling’ moths.

10   3.  intr. To flow as treacle, to trickle. humorous nonce-use.

11 1899.  ‘A. Hope,’ King’s Mirror, xxiii. 246. I could almost see the words treacling from his thick lips.

12   Hence Treacled ppl. a., smeared with treacle; Treacling vbl. sb.

13 1895.  Daily News, 11 Oct., 7/3. The thieves … smashed the window, having previously placed some treacled paper upon it to deaden the sound.

14 1903.  Daily Chron., 10 June, 7/2. There were barely enough flies to make a decent show on the treacled paper which constitutes his advertisement.

15 1913.  Daily Citizen, Oct., 4/2. The catching of insects by this method of treacling requires great experience before it is successful.

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