Trice Meaning

Today's Wordle answer has some searching for a dictionary after a few letters and learned that "trice" was a word. But what is its meaning or definition?

Their article said, “One side of the balance-sheet is hard-to-sell loans; the other side is deposits that can be withdrawn in a trice.” Kyle Smith used the word in an article for “National Review” published October 8, 2019, the dictionary entry said. Hoy wrote: “The precarious bridges, as conventional wisdom goes, could be cut down in a trice, leaving enemies stymied.” While there likely aren’t often as many reasons to use the verb form of the word in modern times, the dictionary records recent usage of the word. [according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trice). It has very different definitions depending on the part of speech,