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trice up

trice up verb: to hoist up using a rope.

Verb

trice up (third-person singular simple present trices up, present participle tricing up, simple past and past participle triced up)

  1. to hoist up using a rope
  2. To placed up so as to allow more access to the floorspace underneath, such as for cleaning.

Forms of trice up

third-person singular presenttrices up
present participletricing up
past participletriced up
pasttriced up

Questions about trice up

What does trice up mean?
Trice up means to hoist up using a rope.
What part of speech is trice up?
Trice up is a verb.
What is the past tense of trice up?
The past tense of trice up is triced up.

Words near trice up in the dictionary

  1. tricaudate
  2. tricausal
  3. triccaballacca
  4. triccaballaccas
  5. trice
  6. trice up
  7. triced
  8. triced up
  9. tricellular
  10. tricellulin
  11. tricellulins

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