Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a line used to trice up any object, either to stow it or to get it out of the way.
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Examples
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Man the main-tack tricing-line and down with the throat of the sail; round-in upon the mainsheet!
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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