trice

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See also: Trice, -trice, tricé, and tříce

English

WOTD – 27 December 2018

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹaɪs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪs
  • Audio (UK):(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (“to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal”), from Middle Dutch trīsen (“to hoist”)[1] (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”).[2]

Verb

trice (third-person singular simple present trices, present participle tricing, simple past and past participle triced)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
  2. (transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
    • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, ch 3:
      ... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.
    • 1911, Arthur H[amilton] Clark, “California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843–1869, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons […], →OCLC, page 215:
      One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as "Doublin Jack," had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English trīce, trise, in the phrase at a trīce (“with a single, quick motion; at once”, literally “with a pull or jerk”), later also in the phrases in a trice, on a trice, and with a trice. The word is ultimately from Middle English trīcen: see etymology 1 above.[3]

Noun

trice (plural trices)

  1. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English trīce, tryys, tryyst, from Middle Dutch trīse, trijs (modern Dutch trijs (“hoisting-block, pulley, windlass”)) or Middle Low German trīsse, trītse (“hoisting-rope, tackle”);[4] probably related to the verb trice (see etymology 1 above), and perhaps to Old English tryndel (“roller, wheel”) (see further at trend, trindle). The English word is cognate with Danish tridse, trisse (“pulley”), Low German trissel (“dizziness; whirling”), German trieze (“crane; pulley”), Norwegian triss (“pulley”), Swedish trissa (“pulley, truckle”).[5]

Noun

trice (plural trices)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).

References

  1. ^ “trīcen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. ^ “trice, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
  3. ^ “trīce, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 August 2018; “trice, n.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.
  4. ^ “trīce, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 August 2018.
  5. ^ Compare “trice, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1914.

Further reading

Anagrams

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

trice

  1. comparative degree of tric

Adverb

trice

  1. comparative degree of tric

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

trice

  1. inflection of trica:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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