tice

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /taɪs/ === Etymology 1 === Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose. ==== Noun ==== tice (plural tices) (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker. 1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1, Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats. 1911, Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, Volume 1, page 452, A "yorker" (or "tice") pitches on, or within six inches of, the popping crease; […] . (croquet) A ball left at a hittable but difficult distance or position, to lure the opponent into a mistake. ===== Synonyms ===== (ball bowled to strike the pitch near the batsman's feet): yorker === Etymology 2 === Aphetic form of entice. ==== Verb ==== tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticing, simple past and past participle ticed) (transitive, obsolete) To entice (someone). === References === “tice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === -etic, CETI, EITC, cite, etic == Scots == === Etymology === From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier (“to stir up”), probably from a word meaning "to set on fire," derived from Latin titio (“firebrand”). Compare English entice. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /təis/, /taez/ === Verb === tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticin, simple past and past participle ticet) to coax, entice, wheedle === References === == Walloon == === Etymology === From Old French terce, alternative form of tiers (“third”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tiːs/ === Noun === tice m terce