tice
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Is tice a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.Examples: "Bowlers should practise both toss and tice."; "The tice is almost a full pitch. If you have a long reach, go in and play forward; if not, however, keep your bat down, and block it."; "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."Synonyms: yorkerdated
2. (croquet) A ball left at a hittable but difficult distance or position, to lure the opponent into a mistake.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To entice (someone).Examples: "VVhat ſtrong enchantments tice my yeelding ſoule […]"; "Have I not reaſon, think you, to look pale? / These tvvo have ’ticed me hither to this place: […]"; "Hath ſome fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane? / And vvilt thou leave the Church, and love a ſtie?"obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary