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Definition of Tricing
1. trice [v] - See also: trice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tricing
Literary usage of Tricing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kedge-anchor; Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1864)
"YARD TACKLE tricing-LINES. If no cheek on the yard, take the pendants taut along
from the yard-arm, and then secure a single tail-block. ..."
2. The Kedge-anchor, Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Appertaining Tothe Practical by William N. Brady (1882)
"Round the fiddle-block in the pendant, between both sheaves, secure the tricing-line
with a running-eye; then reeve the other end through the cheek, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, Stephen Keyes Williams, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1885)
"A Legislature may pas* laws tricing validity to < past deeds of land, which were
before ineffectual such as a law validating an ineffectual ..."
4. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce, United States Naval Academy (1898)
"Clamp the quarter-irons, hook the boom tricing-line. rig out to the square mark
and take off the clew jigger and whip. Lastly, seize a hook horizontally 011 ..."
5. Text-book of Seamanship: The Equipping and Handling of Vessels Under Sail Or by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1884)
"Clamp the quarter-irons, hook the boom tricing-line, rig out to the square mark
and take off the clew jigger and whip. Lastly, seize a hook horizontally on ..."
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