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noun

Tierce 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.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

(Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

(Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

(R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

adjective

Tierce adj. (Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.

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Etymology of 'Tierce'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tierce" Quotes from Famous Books

... Master said, "upon thy feet; The way is long, and difficult the road, And now the sun to middle-tierce returns." ...

— Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell • Dante Alighieri

... Spedella. "So it was not honey you brought home from your rambles? Feinte seconde and decisive tierce! It's long since I've touched a good blade. These ...

— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

... the schooner, I resolved to push through with this business at once, and fetching the chopper went to work upon these barrels and chests; and very briefly I will tell you what I found. First, I dealt with a tierce that proved full of salt beef. There was a whole row of these tierces, and one sufficed to express the nature of the rest; there were upwards of thirty barrels of pork; one canvas bale I ripped ...

— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell

... world did you do it?" he said. "I thought I could parry a simple tierce, even though I might not ...

— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

... he was given a pupil of some force, against whom usually he was hard put to it to defend himself. Coming on guard, he made up his mind to hit him on the fourth disengage, predetermining the four passes that should lead up to it. They engaged in tierce, and Andre-Louis led the attack by a beat and a straightening of the arm. Came the demi-contre he expected, which he promptly countered by a thrust in quinte; this being countered again, he reentered still lower, and being again correctly parried, as he had calculated, ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

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