TRICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trice mean? 

• TRICE (noun)
  The noun TRICE has 1 sense:

1. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

  Familiarity information: TRICE used as a noun is very rare.

• TRICE (verb)
  The verb TRICE has 2 senses:

1. raise with a line

2. hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope

  Familiarity information: TRICE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; New York minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink

Context example:

if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

Hypernyms ("trice" is a kind of...):

bit; minute; mo; moment; second (an indefinitely short time)

• TRICE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Raise with a line

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

trice; trice up

Context example:

trice a window shade

Hypernyms (to "trice" is one way to...):

bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

trice; trice up

Hypernyms (to "trice" is one way to...):

hoist; lift; wind (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

There are but three seams; you may do them in a trice.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In a trice the heat from his body filled the confined space and he was asleep.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Carter has done with you or nearly so; I'll make you decent in a trice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Both tackles were hooked in a trice, and the three men, deftly timing the roll, made a simultaneous leap aboard the schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had not time to be afraid, but as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Buck was beset by three huskies, and in a trice his head and shoulders were ripped and slashed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I'll get admitted there, and I'll stir up mutiny; and you, three-tailed bashaw as you are, sir, shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I, for one, consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter, the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)