trice

On 15 July 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 probe sent back grainy images of Mars, revealing a forbidding surface that destroyed florid Victorian speculation in a trice.

From Nature ● Jan. 7, 2019

We’d hired someone to help us sort through our belongings—keep it, sell it, give it away—Patty could get rid of anything in a trice.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2018

War, as we know, changes everything, and in a trice it had changed my father.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017

He was maybe three feet from the net, but somehow, in a trice, managed to extend his left arm sideways and tilt his racquet head down toward his thighs.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2016

"Maggot topping, all slimy and nice! I shall devour it in a trice!"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

I like not being triced up between two halbards.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Do you notice, Mr Gadsby, that she has no nettings triced up on her port side?

From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson

As the boats approached, the deck of the pirate was seen crowded with men, and boarding nettings triced up.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

Blocks and tackles were then made fast to the end of the fore and main booms, the booms were triced up at an angle to serve as derricks, and the hatch-covers were stripped off.

From A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas by Archibald Webb

I know I triced that up properly last night.

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin

When there are fourteen or more men at a gun, the Port-tacklemen and Side-tacklemen, on lower decks, lead out port-tackle falls and assist in tricing up the port, and, when high enough, belay the fall.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

He lowered the foresail, and still further reduced the mainsail by tricing up the tack.

From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight

Those used for the hammocks, or tricing up the bags between the beams on the lower-deck.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

“Good!” said I. “Then let them be brought on deck at once, and see that all is ready for tricing them up, should those boats succeed in getting dangerously near to us.”

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson

In a moment, cutting the tricing lines of her boarding nettings, they sprang up her side and threw themselves on the deck.

From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston