(obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).

(transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply. / (transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.

Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.

simple past tense and past participle of trice

A surname.

plural of trice

present participle of trice

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trice

plural of Trice

A series of Roman Catholic masses said on thirty successive days