Word
Tierce
How many syllables?
1 Syllable
How it's divided?
tierce
Definition
- n. - A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is,
forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or
thirty-five imperial, gallons.
- n. - A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or
a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for
shipment.
- n. - The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
- n. - A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce
of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
- n. - A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and
nails are turned downward.
- n. - The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the
canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
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