Tries vs Trice - What's the difference?
tries | trice |
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,
* {{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.
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
* Chaucer
(nautical) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
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 .trice
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tryse, tryys, probably of (etyl) origin; compare Swedish . More at (l), (l).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)- 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.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) trisen, trycen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(tric)- Out of his seat I will him trice .