tricked

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Boarding-nettings she had, too, ready to be triced up in case of need; and altogether she had no occasion to dread any enemy she was at all likely to meet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

Will my dead wife's family be less bereaved because of two kegs of peef and three tins of biscuit, or Rosalie's family less disgraced because her uncle was triced through the streets like a big?

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

The door was triced up to form an outer shelter, and Barbara was a trifle astonished when Brooke signed them to enter.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold

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 Hodgson, Edward S.

Its name, on a life-buoy triced to the rusty netting between the rails, was the Olive Branch, but its port of registry had been painted out.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson