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Meanings of trice in inglés

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instante

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

      instante

      Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope.

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            Examples for "trice up"
            Examples for "trice up"
            1
            The cutter's foresail had been triced up, and served as a partition.
            The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
            2
            A sail triced up was filled with water to serve as a bath.
            Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs: A Tale of Land and Sea
            3
            Not relishing this, she hauled down her colours and triced up her sails.
            The Boy who sailed with Blake
            4
            He had been triced up and lashed till he fainted had been revived and lashed again.
            Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories / Chosen and Edited By ...
            5
            I'll have him triced up in a jiffy.
            Jack of the Pony Express; Or, The Young Rider of the Mountain Tr...
            Usage of trice in inglés
            1
            Using Israel for a ladder, in a trice he scaled the wall.
            Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
            2
            They had the coffin up in a trice, and examined the mouse.
            Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
            3
            With that he was into the cab and off in a trice.
            A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike
            4
            At six reals each copy they will go off in a trice.
            Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
            5
            For in a trice little children would reach the fulness of manhood:
            The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
            6
            I did as I was ordered and was ready in a trice.
            The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
            7
            In a trice Isoult had struck with her dagger at Maulfry's shoulder.
            The Forest Lovers
            8
            This is enough to make one surrender one's honor in a trice.
            Ruthless
            9
            You will see 'Sordello' in a trice, if the fagging fit holds.
            Life and Letters of Robert Browning
            10
            We'll catch him in a trice, and then I'll guide you out.
            A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
            11
            The key was on the inside and I turned it in a trice.
            The Man with the Clubfoot
            12
            In a trice he was again in the corridor leading to his bed-chamber.
            The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
            13
            The two men prepared one of the chickens in a trice.
            Jack Haydon's Quest
            14
            He was a brisk walker, Hugot; and was back again in a trice.
            The Boy Hunters
            15
            So I carved it in a trice, and helped the ladies.
            Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
            16
            Instantly and anciently familiar he seemed; my gaze fed hungrily for a trice.
            Autobiography of a Yogi
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