untrice
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untrice (third-person singular simple present untrices, present participle untricing, simple past and past participle untriced)
- (transitive, nautical) To release something previously triced, i.e. hoisted and tied up.
- 1847, John Ross Dix, Jack Ariel, Or, Life on Board an Indiaman, volume 1, page 83:
- Then ordering the boy of the mess to untrice his hammock, and staggering towards it, after several attempts he succeeded in springing into it from a chest, […]
- 1996, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, page 249:
- I walked forward and untriced the bowsprit dolphin-striker, to get ready for sailing.