trice
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(obsolete, transitive)To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
- 2.
(transitive)To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
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noun- 1.
Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
Đồng nghĩa: instant, jiffy, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, New York minute, New York second, no time, sec, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while
- 2.
(obsolete, rare)A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
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From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal), from dum trīsen to hoist (modern trijsen) or trissen (to trice the spritsail); further etymology uncertain. The word is cognate with trisse, tridse (to haul with a pulley), trissen, tryssen, drisen, drysen (to wind up, trice), trissen, triezen (to annoy or torment).