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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

trine v.¹

[synon. 14C–16C SE trine, ult. OSwed. trina, to go]

to go, to step.

1622		Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush III iv: Twang dells i’ th’ strommel, and let the queer-cuffin / And harmanbecks trine, and trine to the ruffin.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 196: Been Darkmans then booze Mort and Ken, / and been Coves bing avast, / On Chats to trine, by Rum-Coves dine, / for his long Lib at last [Sweet Wench, Ale-house and Beer, good Night, / the Jovial Rogues departed; / To hanging by the Justice Spight, / to his long Home he’s carted].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict.

In phrases

trine to the cheat(s) (v.) (also trine on the cheats) [cheat n. (4)]

to go to the gallows, to be hanged, lit. ‘walk to the things’; thus trining, a hanging.

1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Then to the quier Ken to scowre the Cramp-ring, And then to be Tryn’d on the Chates, in the lightmans.
1611		Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: Else trine me on the cheats – hang me.
1612		Dekker O per se O ‘Canting Song’ O2: Bein [sic] darkmans then, bouse, mort, and ken / the bien coue’s bingd a wast; / On chates to trine, by Rome-coves dine / for his long lib at last.
1637		Dekker ‘Canting Song’ in English Villainies (8th edn) O: If we niggle or mill a Bowsing Ken [...] And then to the quier Ken to scowre the cramp-ring, And then to be Trin’de on the chates in the light-mans .
1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 195: Cove. I will venture a training, [sic] or a noosing, ’ere I will want Lower, peckage, beane bowse, or duds for my Morts, & my Kinchins.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 46: And toure the Cove that cloyd your duds / Upon the Chates to trine.
a.1674		‘Canting Song’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 23: On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 196: [as cit. a.1674].
1815		(con. 18C) W. Scott Guy Mannering (1999) 148: Ye are a’ altered from the good auld rules, and no wonder that you scour the cramp-ring and trine to the cheat sae often.