trice

[Trice]

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

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To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

Noun
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"

Verb
hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope

Verb
raise with a line; "trice a window shade"


v. t.
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

v. t.
To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

n.
A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.


Trice

Trice , v. t. [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.
2. (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

Trice

Trice, n. [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.] 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.

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

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