Tice

Bowlers should practise both toss and tice.

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; […] .

VVhat ſtrong enchantments tice my yeelding ſoule […]

Have I not reaſon, think you, to look pale? / These tvvo have ’ticed me hither to this place: […]

Hath ſome fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane? / And vvilt thou leave the Church, and love a ſtie?