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Middle English
Verb
tryce
- To pull; to haul
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio xcii, recto, Nero, column 2:
[…] by god I 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)