Trice

Quick meaning: Trice is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
2. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
3. (obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).

Example Sentences

He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;

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

And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.

Word Forms

• trices
• tricing
• triced
• trise

Synonyms for trice

Depending on context, synonyms include instant, jiffy, bit, crack, eyeblink, flash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flash, split second, twinkling, wink, jiffy, instant.

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