trice

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: blink of an eye flash heartbeat instant jiffy split second twinkling wink New York minute trice up

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)“if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash”Synonyms: blink of an eye flash heartbeat instant jiffy split second twinkling wink New York minute

Verb (2)

raise with a line“trice a window shade”Synonyms: trice up
hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small ropeSynonyms: trice up

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Trice \Trice\, n. [Sp. tris the noise made by the breaking of glass, an instant, en un tris in an instant; probably of imitative origin.] 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. [1913 Webster]

A man shall make his fortune in a trice. --Young. [1913 Webster]

Trice \Trice\, v. t. [OE. trisen; of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Sw. trissa a sheave, pulley, triss a spritsail brace, Dan. tridse a pulley, tridse to haul by means of a pulley, to trice, LG. trisse a pulley, D. trijsen to hoist.] [Written also trise.]

1.To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Out of his seat I will him trice.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

2.(Naut.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope. [1913 Webster]