trigging

Updated: May 24, 2025

Thus it happens that three-fourths of Billy Bosistow's cobbling is devoted to the "trigging" of boot-heels, while the wives, who mend all the small clothes, have long ago and by consent given up any pretence of harmonising the patch with the original garment.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Nicky-Nan, Reservist