Tripping /(?)/

Trip·ping

Tripping

a.
  1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
  2. Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing. (Her.)

Tripping

n.
  1. Act of one who, or that which, trips.
  2. A light dance.
    Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes.
  3. The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. (Naut.)

Phrases & Compounds
Tripping line
a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor.