• IPA: /tɹaɪs/

trice (trices, present participle tricing; past and past participle triced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pull#Verb|pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
2. (transitive) To drag#Verb|drag or haul#Verb|haul, especially with a rope#Noun|rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist#Verb|hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 3:

     ... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.

trice (plural trices)

1. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short#Adjective|short time#Noun|time; an instant#Noun|instant, a moment.
   • c. 1603–1606, [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, OCLC 54196469 ↗, [Act I, scene i] ↗:

     This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now / Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, / Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, / Should in this trice of time commit a thing / So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, {{...}

• Russian: миг

trice (plural trices)

1. (obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass.

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