Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to hang.

1612		Dekker ‘Of the ‘Abr’am’ his Description’ O per se O (1967) 290: The Abr’am cove is a lusty strong rogue who walketh with a slate about his quaroms a ‘sheet’ about his ‘body’ trining ‘hanging’ to his hams bandelier-wise.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue [as cit. 1612].
1674		‘The Beggars Curse’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 14: From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Trine, Hang. [Ibid.] Trin’d, Hanged.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Trine, to Hang. [Ibid.] If she won’t wap for a Winne, let her trine for a Make, c. If she won’t Lie with a Man for a Penny, let her Hang for a Half-penny.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 194: The Ruffin nab the Cuffin-quere, and let the Harmanbeck trine with his Kinchins about his Coloquaron [Let the Devil take the Justice, and let the Constable hang with his Children about his Neck].
1725		‘Retoure My Dear Dell’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 45: And if it should e’er be my hard fate to trine, / I never will whiddle, I never will squeek.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 19: To hang – Trine.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 111: TRINE, to hang. Ancient Cant.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].