untrice

untrice

English

Etymology

un- +‎ trice

Verb

untrice (third-person singular simple present untrices, present participle untricing, simple past and past participle untriced)

1. (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.