Definition of "prise"

prise

/pɹaɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present prises, present participle prising, simple past and past participle prised
1. To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
  Quotations
  I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
  1919, Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
  Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
  c. 1925, Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
  Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
  2004, BBC News
2. Extract something that is difficult to obtain.
noun
plural prises
1. (obsolete) An enterprise or adventure.
  Quotations
  In which I may record the memory Of my loves conquest, peerlesse beauties prise
  1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927,
2. Obsolete form of prize.