LekhoriLekhoriTo pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.
To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.
A surname.
From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (“to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal”), from Middle Dutch trīsen (“to hoist”) (modern Dutch trijsen) or Middle Low German trissen (“to trice the spritsa...
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A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).