What does "trice" mean?

Trice: (Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.

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