trice

kotva

nostaa A roller; windlass.
A very short time; an instant; a moment; – now used only in the phrase in a trice.
1623, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Crown Publishers, Inc. (1975), page 975,

This is most strange, that she, who even but now was your best object...most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle so many folds of favor.

And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.

Out of his seat I will him trice.