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Tice vs Tace - What's the difference?

tice | tace |

As nouns the difference between tice and tace

is that tice is (cricket) a ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket while tace is .

As a verb tice

is (obsolete) to entice.

tice

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cricket) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

    • Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of entice.

    Verb

    (tic)
  • (obsolete) To entice.
    • (The Coronation)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    tace

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Fairholt)
  • * 1860 December 22, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch's Book of British Costume'', '' , Volume 39: July—December 1860, page 248,
    • The passe-gardes we have mentioned are also clearly visible, and notice should be taken of the horizontal plates, called taces', extending from the breastplate to protect the hips. As we have seen in the last reign, two small pointed plates, called tuilles, are affixed by straps in the front to the lowest of the ' taces , so as to give a further protection to the thigh; and under them is visible a short tunic of mail, which, we thus learn, still continued in military use.
    (Webster 1913) ----