English

Noun

tice ‎(plural tices)

1. (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.
   • 1862, James Picroft, The Cricket-Field, Or The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket, page 120,

     Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.

   • 1863 March 7, The Complete Guide to the Cricket Field: Chapter III: The Batsman, The Boy's Miscellany: An Illustrated Journal of Useful and Entertaining Literature for Youth, Volume 1, page 155,

     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.

   • 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; […] .

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)

1. (obsolete) To entice.

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier ‎(“to stir up”). Compare English entice.

• Source:Concise Scots Dictionary, Aberdeen University Press, 1985

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təis/, /taez/

Verb

tice ‎(third-person singular present tices, present participle ticin, past ticet, past participle ticet)

1. to coax, entice, wheedle

Walloon

Noun

tice m

1. terce