tryce
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tryce
- To pull; to haul
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xcii, recto, Nero, column 2:
- […] by god I [Fortune] am to nyce / To ſet a man, that is fulfylled of vyce / In hye degre, and an emperour hym call / By God out of hys ſete I woll him tryce / when he leſt weneth, ſonest ſhall he fall.
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