tryste

Noun

1. 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...
   • 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. - 1840,...
   • 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...