'Trice' definitions:
Definition of 'trice'
From: WordNet
noun
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute]
verb
Raise with a line; "trice a window shade" [syn: trice, trice up]
verb
Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope [syn: trice, trice up]
Definition of 'Trice'
From: GCIDE
- Trice \Trice\, v. t. [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.]
- 1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Out of his seat I will him trice. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Trice'
From: GCIDE
- Trice \Trice\, n. [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.] A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." --Turbervile. " On a trice." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A man shall make his fortune in a trice. --Young. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trice'
From: Moby Thesaurus