Here is one sentence: 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. -- Sax Rohmer, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper.
Here is another sentence: C. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! -- Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata.
Does the term prise mean the same thing in both these sentences?
the same meaning