trig

adj

1. (dialectal)True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. (dialectal)Safe; secure.
3. (dialectal)Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.

   “Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...”

4. (dialectal)Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.

   “we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig”

   ““A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].”

   “The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.”

5. (dialectal)Active; clever.

noun

1. (dialectal)A dandy; coxcomb.
2. (dialectal, informal, uncountable)Trigonometry.
3. (countable, dialectal, informal)A trig point.
4. (UK, dialectal)A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.

   “You might as well smite that saw with your fist ; you might as well put a trig under the dam and stop it, as to practise on him”

5. (dialectal)The mark for players at skittles, etc.
6. (dialectal, informal)Triglyceride.
7. (dialectal)A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.

verb

1. (dialectal, transitive)To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
2. (dialectal)To fill; to stuff; to cram.

   “By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.”