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"ref": "1875 August, Clements R[obert] Markham, “Arctic Ice-travels”, in E[dward] L[ivingston] Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume VII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 479",
"text": "The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.",
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"(transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply."
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"ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in Lord Jim",
"text": "... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.",
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"ref": "1911, Arthur H[amilton] Clark, “California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843–1869, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons […], →OCLC, page 215",
"text": "One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as \"Doublin Jack,\" had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.",
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"(transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope."
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"ref": "1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.: Barse & Hopkins, publishers, →OCLC, page 53",
"text": "Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the \"Alice May.\" / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then \"Here,\" said I, with a sudden cry, \"is my cre-ma-tor-eum.\"",
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"ref": "2013, J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee, chapter 22, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company, page 220",
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"3": "",
"4": "to annoy or torment"
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"ref": "1911, Arthur H[amilton] Clark, “California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews 1843–1869, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam's Sons […], →OCLC, page 215",
"text": "One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as \"Doublin Jack,\" had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.",
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"ref": "1907, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.: Barse & Hopkins, publishers, →OCLC, page 53",
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