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

He could skip through an enemy's legs and trip him up in a trice, while the man was still concentrating on Sigemund as his only opponent.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

With cannon double-shotted, boarding-nets triced up, and decks cleared for action, the crew of the General Armstrong lay down beside their guns to await the British attack.

From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

The other bands pass downward between the dog's legs and, triced up on each side, are fastened permanently to the back-band, where there is also attached a drag-thong or pulling-trace about two feet long.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

Now, as quickly, the two boat-tenders rowed back to the Drab, and the boats were triced up in a twinkling.

From The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

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

An’ so yeou hed a wisit frum Si an’ Ed, did yeou; an’ wall, what d’ye think o’ thet, gents, here’s yer birds all triced up, ready tew be transported to jail.

From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert

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

From A Desperate Voyage by Knight, Edward Frederick

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Morrison, George Ernest

Thorogood reached the 6-inch battery breathless, and found the guns' crews busy tricing up their mess-tables overhead.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

“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 Hodgson, Edward S.