Definitions for tierce

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Spelling: [teers]

IPA: /tɪərs/

Tierce is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in tierce (ceeirt).

Definitions for tierce

noun

1. an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
2. a cask or vessel holding this quantity.
3. Also, terce. Ecclesiastical. the third of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the third hour of the day (or 9 a.m.).
4. Fencing. the third of eight defensive positions.
5. Piquet. a sequence of three cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, and queen (tierce major) or a king, queen, and jack (tierce minor)
6. Obsolete. a third or third part.

Origin of tierce

1325-75; Middle English Middle French, feminine of tiers Latin tertius third

Examples for tierce

The steel sung with our quick changes from 'quarte' to 'tierce'.

So the tierce was reprieved till after supper, a guard sett over it.

And he killed him with a beautiful feint and thrust in tierce.

Application of a tierce of all escheats to the use of public works.

The ripostes, or reply thrusts, are made as they would have been had the parade been that of tierce.

The Wine is gone in one hogshead and one tierce, marked & No.

This day I sent my cozen Roger a tierce of claret, which I give him.

It is rather more delicate than tierce, but wants its power and energy.

"It's only Kate," said the Chamberlain, and aimed a furious thrust in tierce.

They engaged in tierce, and Andre-Louis led the attack by a beat and a straightening of the arm.