different between tice vs sice

English

Etymology 1

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

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.
   • c. 1598-1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

     Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?
     These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:

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): /t?is/, /taez/

Verb

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

1. to coax, entice, wheedle

References

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French terce, alternative form of tiers (“third”).

Noun

tice m

1. terce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?s/

Etymology 1

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. Alternative spelling of sais

Etymology 2

Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.

Alternative forms

• sise, size

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
   • 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta (page 112)

     In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices […]

Related terms

• ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (saisu)

Translations

Anagrams

• ECIS, ECSI, EICs, ESCI, ICEs, Ices, ices

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?t?s?]

Adverb

sice

1. admittedly

   sice... ale - albeit... however

   Cesta byla sice hezká, ale p?íliš namáhavá