keep tryst

English

Verb

keep tryst (third-person singular simple present keeps tryst, present participle keeping tryst, simple past and past participle kept tryst)

(UK, dialect, archaic) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
Synonym: bide tryst
- 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
  Mr. Venus undertook to produce it again in the morning, and to keep tryst with Mr. Wegg on Boffin's doorstep as the clock struck ten.

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