TRICE
trice, trice up
(verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope
trice, trice up
(verb) raise with a line; “trice a window shade”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Trice (plural Trices)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Trice is the 4145th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8546 individuals. Trice is most common among Black/African American (51.18%) and White (41.91%) individuals.
Anagrams
• citer, recit, recti, recti-, retic
Etymology 1
Verb
trice (third-person singular simple present trices, present participle tricing, simple past and past participle triced)
(transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
(transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
Etymology 2
Noun
trice (plural trices)
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; an instant, a moment.
Etymology 3
Noun
trice (plural trices)
(obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
Anagrams
• citer, recit, recti, recti-, retic
Source: Wiktionary
Trice, v. t. Etym: [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.]
1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
Trice, n. Etym: [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.]
Definition: A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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