Latin, ex, out of, and tricœ, fetters. “Tricæ” are the hairs, etc., tied round the feet of birds to prevent their wandering. To extricate is to “get out of these tricœ or meshes.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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