Trice
Trice , transitive verb
[Old English trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; compare Swedish trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Danish tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, Dutch trijsen to hoist.]
1.
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obsolete]
Out of his seat I will him trice.
2.
(Nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
Trice , noun
[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.
With a trice.
On a trice.
A man shall make his fortune in a trice.