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untricing

untricing is the present participle and gerund of untrice.

Meaning of untrice

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

Questions about untricing

What is untricing the present participle and gerund of?
Untricing is the present participle and gerund of untrice.

Words near untricing in the dictionary

  1. untribium
  2. untributary
  3. untrice
  4. untriced
  5. untrices
  6. untricing
  7. untrickable
  8. untricked
  9. untride
  10. untried
  11. untriedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untricing (page history and authors); 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.

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