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

In a trice she can shift registers, though, and her candor and keenness of eye translate surprisingly well to tenderness.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2018

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

Then we triced it up, and felt that at last we were ready for whatever the fates—and the natives—might have in store for us.

From Turned Adrift by Edward S. Hodgson

He attacked her gallantly, but she was heavily armed and strongly manned, and, before he could venture to run alongside, had triced up her boarding nettings.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

"That thundering cockroach-legged thief, that was copper-fastened with gold lace and brass buttons chock up to his ears, with a thundering great broadsword triced up to his larboard quarter and slung with brass chains."

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames

Everywhere they can be distinguished by their dress, by their enormous oiled sunshades, and by their habit of tricing their loads high up to the carrying pole.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

A chain or plate fastened by a screw, to secure a vessel's bowsprit to the stem-head, allowing for the tricing up of the bowsprit when required.

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

Lanyards, chain pendents, runners and tackles for tricing up, and bars and keys for securing lower deck ports In place.

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

“I’ll rig up a whip from the foreyard and we can let down a hammock for ’em, tricing up one at a time.”

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Henry Austin

The work of tricing him up occupied the beach-combers throughout the entire day.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris