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tice

/taɪs/

tice noun: a ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.

Noun

tice (plural tices)

  1. (dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.
    • Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.1862, James Picroft, The Cricket-Field, Or The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket, page 120
    • The tice is almost a full pitch. If you have a long reach, go in and play forward; if not, however, keep your bat down, and block it.1863 March 7, “The Complete Guide to the Cricket Field: Chapter III: The Batsman”, in The Boy's Miscellany: An Illustrated Journal of Useful and Entertaining Literature for Youth, volume 1, page 155
    Synonyms:
    yorker
  2. (croquet) A ball left at a hittable but difficult distance or position, to lure the opponent into a mistake.

Verb

tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticing, simple past and past participle ticed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To entice (someone).
    • VVhat ſtrong enchantments tice my yeelding ſoule […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • Have I not reaſon, think you, to look pale? / These tvvo have ’ticed me hither to this place: […]c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Proper noun capitalized: Tice

Tice (countable and uncountable, plural Tices)

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Lee County, Florida, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Menard County, Illinois, United States.

Synonyms of tice

Forms of tice

Noun
pluraltices
Verb
third-person singular presenttices
present participleticing
past participleticed
pastticed
Proper noun
pluralTices

Origin of tice

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

Aphetic form of entice.

Questions about tice

What does tice mean?
Tice means a ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.
What part of speech is tice?
Tice can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tice?
Tice is pronounced /taɪs/.
What is the plural of tice?
The plural of tice is tices.

Words near tice in the dictionary

  1. ticced
  2. ticcer
  3. ticcers
  4. ticcing
  5. ticcy
  6. tice
  7. ticed
  8. Ticehurst
  9. Ticehursts
  10. ticement
  11. ticements

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