Middle English Dictionary Entry
trīcen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | trīcen v. Also trice, trise, triuse; p.ppl. triced, triside, itrised. |
| Etymology | MDu. trīsen to hoist. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To pull or push (sb. or sth.); snatch (sth., an animal) away, steal; also fig.; (b) ~ in, ?to hoist (soldiers) onto a wall; ~ up, hoist (a sail), haul up (soldiers onto a wall); (c) ?to leap, spring.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3715 : Out of his sete I wol hym trice Whan he leest weneth sonnest shal he falle.
- (?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)287 : Lordes, lest fauel yow fro wele tryce, No lenger souffre hire nestlen in your ere.
- (c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)265 : Thogh a man this day sitte hye on the wheel, To morwe he may be tryced from his sete.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.3527 : For wher Fortune is founde to hasty To trise [vr. tryuse] folk, is greuous to endure, For sodeyn chaungis been hatful to nature.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)13.20 : In the tyme Of the chas Alle Tholomes harneis Itrised was.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)1411 : Chirche or prouendre vnneþe hem may eschape But þei as blyue it henten vp and trice.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.658 : To scorne Ihesu they make it but a Iape; They trusse hym, they trise hym, they lete hym falle.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)491 : Ȝe þat haue goode hors, to yow I sey caueatis..Her ys an abyll felyschyppe to tryse hem out of yowr gatys..Yf ȝe fayll of hors, take what ȝe may ellys.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)575 : I trow Mankynde wyll cum ageyn son..Hys bedys xall be trysyde asyde, and þat anon.
- c1450(1446) Nightingale (Clg A.2)13/336 : Both hye and lowe, thenk well that ye shall henne, Deth wyll you trise, ye wot not how ne whenne.
- a1605(c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)208 : Deathe shall men from hence trice.
b
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)832 : With trumppez then trystly, they trisen vpe þaire saillez.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2501 : Triced vp at hoom, thei skippe & lepe To se this ambulary touris brenne.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2532 : Thei trice in other with the Tollenon.
c
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)180 : I go, j come, j lepe, j flee, j springe, j carolle, j trippe, j daunce, j trice [F bale], goinge to reuelle.