TRICES

Proper noun

Trices

plural of Trice

Anagrams

• citers, criest, recits, retics, steric

Noun

trices

plural of trice

Verb

trices

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trice

Anagrams

• citers, criest, recits, retics, steric

Source: Wiktionary


TRICE

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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