TRICE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] Out of his seat I will him trice. Chaucer.

2.
v.

To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

3.
n.

A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.

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