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Tries vs Trice - What's the difference?

tries | trice |

As verbs the difference between tries and trice

is that tries is while trice is to pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.

As a noun trice is

a roller; windlass or trice can be a very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice .

tries

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (try)
  • Anagrams

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    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

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