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trice

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

1. To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
2. To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

trice (plural trices)

1. A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,

     This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favor.

   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:

     Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the ""Alice May"". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then ""Here"", said I, with a sudden cry, ""is my cre-ma-tor-eum.""

trice

1. Comparative form of tric.

trice

1. Comparative form of tric.

Definizione dizionario trice

attimo

istante

Altri significati:

To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

very short time

A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.