trice : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: trice	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trice n 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" Synonym(s): blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute v raise with a line; "trice a window shade" [syn: trice, trice up] hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope Synonym(s): trice, trice up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]With a trice.[b8] --Turbervile. [bd] On a trice.[b8] --Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. --Young.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] Out of his seat I will him trice. --Chaucer. 2. (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.