Trice
WordNet
noun
(1) A very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat)
"If I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
verb
(2) Hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope
(3) Raise with a line
"Trice a window shade"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,
- This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favor.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,