How to pronounce“trice”in English
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Definitions of “trice”
To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
“The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.”
To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
“... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.”
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
“Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.”
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