Word.ws English Dictionary

untrice

untrice verb: to release something previously triced, i.e., hoisted and tied up.

Verb

untrice (third-person singular simple present untrices, present participle untricing, simple past and past participle untriced)

  1. (transitive) To release something previously triced, i.e., hoisted and tied up.
    • Then ordering the boy of the mess to untrice his hammock, and staggering towards it, after several attempts he succeeded in springing into it from a chest, […]1847, John Ross Dix, Jack Ariel, Or, Life on Board an Indiaman, volume 1, page 83
    • I walked forward and untriced the bowsprit dolphin-striker, to get ready for sailing.1996, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, page 249

Forms of untrice

third-person singular presentuntrices
present participleuntricing
past participleuntriced
pastuntriced

Origin of untrice

From un- + trice.

Questions about untrice

What does untrice mean?
Untrice means to release something previously triced, i.e., hoisted and tied up.
What part of speech is untrice?
Untrice is a verb.
What is the past tense of untrice?
The past tense of untrice is untriced.

Words near untrice in the dictionary

  1. untriangulated
  2. untribal
  3. untribalized
  4. untribium
  5. untributary
  6. untrice
  7. untriced
  8. untrices
  9. untricing
  10. untrickable
  11. untricked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untrice (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “untrice.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/untrice. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.