tryste

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of tryst.

   “In the little village of Kirkmichael, before the late depopulation, a weekly market was regularly held and well attended, particularly by shoemakers from Athol, and vendors of bog fir from Badenach; and an annual sheep and cattle fair is still held there at Michaelmas, a few days before the Michaelmas tryste at Falkirk.”

   “With this sum, which it seems was at the time sufficient for the purpose, the master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun-Tryste, a fair held on a hill near Wooler in Northumberland.”

   “A worthy highlander, lately gone to his rest, who in his day was the greatest sheep-farmer and cattle-breeder in the North, was accustomed at the Falkirk trystes, over his toddy in the evening, to hold forth to a sympathetic auditory in his favorite public-house, or “howff”, on the great dignity of his calling.”