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tricing

tricing is the present participle and gerund of trice.

Meaning of trice

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
    • The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.1875 August, Clements R[obert] Markham, “Arctic Ice-travels”, in E[dward] L[ivingston] Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume VII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC...
  2. (transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
    • ... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in Lord Jim

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Phrases with tricing

Questions about tricing

What is tricing the present participle and gerund of?
Tricing is the present participle and gerund of trice.

Words near tricing in the dictionary

  1. Tricia
  2. triciliate
  3. triciliated
  4. tricin
  5. tricine
  6. tricing
  7. tricing up
  8. tricingulate
  9. tricipital
  10. tricircular
  11. triciribine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tricing (page history and authors); trice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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