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English word try comes from Late Latin trito
trito (Late Latin)
*triare (Latin)
trier (Old French)
(legal) to try (in court). To choose; to select. To find. To pull. To sort. To verify; to make sure of.
trier (Anglo-Norman)
trien (Middle English)
try (English)
(legal) To put on trial.. (nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.. (obsolete) To do; to fare.. (one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.. (slang, chiefly, _, AAVE, used with another [...]