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trice | frice |

As a noun trice

is a roller; windlass.

As a verb trice

is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

As an adverb frice is

four times.

trice

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tryse, tryys, probably of (etyl) origin; compare Swedish . More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A roller; windlass.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tryse, in the phrase , later also in the phrases at a trice'', ''with a trice'', ''on a trice'', ''in a trice ; ultimately from the verb. See below.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice .
  • * 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,
    • This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favor.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1907 , title=(The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses) , author=Robert W. Service , chapter=(The Cremation of Sam McGee) , passage=Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."}}
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
  • *:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) trisen, trycen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (tric)
  • To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
  • * Chaucer
    • Out of his seat I will him trice .
  • (nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    frice

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (rare, nonstandard, humorous) four times
  • * 1999 , John R Erickson, Gerald L Holmes, Every dog has his day
    • ...not once or twice or thrice or frice , but many times, and always under awkward conditions.
  • * 2001 , Benedict Kelly, The collected stories of Benedict Kiely
    • ...and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down...
  • * 2001 , "Joe", Linnell finds the camera!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.tmbg )
    • Three cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice .
  • * 2001 , "Alan T Gower", Seconds from Disaster'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.rec.motorcycles )
    • I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice .
    English frequency adverbs