trice up

present singular third person trices up · participle present tricing up · participle past triced up · past triced up

1. nauticalto hoist up using a rope

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   The crews were drilled at the guns and with cutlass, musket, and boarding-pikes, and other small arms. Courts-martial were held on board and the rawhide cat-o'-nine-tails was freely used by the boatswain upon the naked backs and shoulders of triced-up seamen—one, two, three dozen, perhaps, with a bucket of salt water to rinse off the blood.

   1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 2

2. nauticalTo placed up so as to allow more access to the floorspace underneath, such as for cleaning.