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"Trice up the port lids and run out the guns.

All hands heave out and trice up.

Men stood by at every port lid, holding the lanyard that would trice it up, allowing the guns to be run out.

"No, loaded but don't trice up the port lids."

Their use is to trice up the bunt of the sail, to better furl it up.

"If she learns of it, gai'shain, I will trice you up for cooking myself.

'Trice up and lay out,' and they cast off the gaskets, holding the sails under their arms.

"Trice up - lay out!"

While men sheeted home the headsails he shouted aloft to the topmen: 'Trice up and lay out!'

'Lay aloft, jump to it, trice up, lay out, lay out - will you lay out there on the maintops' yard?

He was seven times Spanish Champion (1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1963, and 1964), and trice Catalan Champion (1947, 1949, 1950).

Something that was less of a problem when workers were paid in cash, so defining the need for cash reserves, and when banks were only allowed to lend trice their equity.

Short chapters came to be published once or even trice per month due to its sporadic release until January 4, 2007 when the next chapter did not get released until August 2, 2007.

He raised the speaking trumpet to his lips and soon reached the last of the orders: "Lower topsails . . . trice up and lay out . . . take in two reefs!"

After that there was a stream of orders aimed at the men on the maintopsail yard, Aitken's mild Scottish accent amplified and distorted by the speaking trumpet: "Trice up ... lay out!"

'When I give the word,' he concluded, 'you shall discharge your pieces, and by thunder, if any man is a second before or a second after his fellows I shall trice him up to the weather rigging!'