Look up: Tierce

1. Tierce
   In heraldry, tierce describes an escutcheon divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures.
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2. Tierce
   One of the five low partials of a bell, usually about a minor third above the prime. Often the loudest partial, it contributes to a bell's timbre but does not affect its pitch.
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3. Tierce
   high line, pronated guard on the sword-arm side
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4. Tierce
   parry #3; blade up and to the outside, wrist pronated
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5. Tierce
   Tierce noun [ French tierce a third, from tiers , tierce , third, from Latin tertius the third; akin to tres three. See Third , Three , and confer Terce , Tercet , Tertiary .]
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6. Tiercé
   Tier·cé' adjective [ French] (Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
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7. tierce
   1. 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. ... 2. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc, are packed for shipment. .....
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8. Tierce
   • (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. • (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon. • (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provi...
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9. tierce
   tierce 1. A sequence of three cards of the same suit. 2. The third of eight positions from which a fencing parry can be made. 3. A former measure of capacity equal to (42 wine gallons). 4. Etymology: from Old French, from Latin tertia, feminine of tertius, 'a third'; from base of tres, 'three'.
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10. tierce
    
    • the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.
    • the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
    • one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
    
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11. Tierce
    A tierce was an Irish measure of beef equivalent to 38 pieces or 304 lbs, in use during the 19th
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12. Tierce
    In card games, tierce is a term referring to three cards of the same suit.
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13. tierce
    measure of liquid capacity, equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 litres).
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14. Tierce
    A French combination bet in which the bettor predicts the horses that will finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
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