trice

About 0.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
2. verb To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
3. noun Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
4. noun A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).

Similar words

flash split second twinkling wink blink of an eye jiffy instant new york minute trice up moment

Often followed by

and the he they i thompson to she was

Word family

triced trices tricing