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/taɪs/ · noun
(cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker..
1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1, Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats.
1911, Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, Volume 1, page 452, A "yorker" (or "tice") pitches on, or within six inches of, the popping crease; […] .
Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.
The tice is almost a full pitch. If you have a long reach, go in and play forward; if not, however, keep your bat down, and block it.
VVhat ſtrong enchantments tice my yeelding ſoule […]
Have I not reaſon, think you, to look pale? / These tvvo have ’ticed me hither to this place: […]
Hath ſome fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane? / And vvilt thou leave the Church, and love a ſtie?
Use tice when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tice means (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker..
Common synonyms include yorker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1, Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats.
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