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All 5 letters words made out of trice

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Definitions and meaning of trice

trice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Etymology 1

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

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.

Alternative forms

• trise (obsolete)

Derived terms

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.

Noun

trice (plural trices)

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

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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”); 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”).

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

Further reading

• trice (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ticer, citer, recit, recti, recti-, retic

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