trice means A surname.
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trice is pronounced /tɹaɪs/.
Etymology
From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (“to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal”), from Middle Dutch trīsen (“to hoist”) (modern Dutch trijsen) or Middle Low German trissen (“to trice the spritsail”); further etymology uncertain. The word is cognate with Danish trisse, tridse (“to haul with a pulley”), Low German trissen, tryssen, drisen, drysen (“to wind up, trice”), German trissen, triezen (“to annoy or torment”).
verb
- To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.e.g.“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.” — 1875 August, Clements R[obert] Markham, “Arctic Ice-travels”, in E[dward] L[ivingston] Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume VII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, pa
- To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.e.g.“... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.” — 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in Lord Jim:
noun
- Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
- A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
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