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What (who) is Tierce - definition
tierce
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Tierce (disambiguation)
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¦ noun
1. another term for terce.
2. Music an organ stop sounding two octaves and a major third above the pitch of the diapason.
3. (in piquet) a sequence of three cards of the same suit.
4. Fencing the third of eight parrying positions.
5. a former measure of wine equal to one third of a pipe, usually equivalent to 35 gallons (about 156 litres).
Origin
ME: var. of terce.
Tierce
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tierce (disambiguation)
·noun The third tone of the scale. ·see Mediant.
II. Tierce ·noun A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
III. Tierce ·noun A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
IV. Tierce ·adj Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures;
- said of an Escutcheon.
V. Tierce ·noun The third hour of the day, or nine ·adj m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
VI. Tierce ·noun A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, ·etc., are packed for shipment.
VII. Tierce ·noun 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.
Tierce (unit)
The tierce (also terse) is both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the cask of that size. The most common definitions are either one-third of a pipe or forty-two gallons.
