1) About 9 AM 2) Canonical hour 3) Defensive position in fencing 4) Forty-two gallons 5) French word used in English 6) Old cask 7) Old liquid measure 8) Position in fencing 9) Recite upon a cask 10) Terce 11) The third canonical hour 12) Third hour 13) Unit of volume
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1) Terce 2) Tercet 3) Ternion 4) Terzetto 5) Threesome 6) Trey 7) Triad 8) Trine 9) Trinity 10) Trio 11) Triplet
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- 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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Parry #3; blade up and to the outside, wrist pronated. The point is significantly higher than the hand. Covers the outside high line. This is the basic en garde position in sabre.
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Tierce comes from the Latin word for `third` and can refer to: == See also == ...
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• (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 provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. •...
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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. ... 3. The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. ......
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A French combination bet in which the bettor predicts the horses that will finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
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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 .]
1. A cask whose content is one third of a p...
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Tier·cé' adjective [ French]
(Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
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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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parry #3; blade up and to the outside, wrist pronated
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A tierce was an Irish measure of beef equivalent to 38 pieces or 304 lbs, in use during the 19th
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In card games, tierce is a term referring to three cards of the same suit.
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In heraldry, tierce describes an escutcheon divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures.
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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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measure of liquid capacity, equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 litres).
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Anglo-American hollow measure or also a barrel type with a volume of 159.113 litres in England and 158.987 litres in the USA. Two tierces correspond to a puncheon and six to a tun. See also under barrel types and hollow measurements.
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high line, pronated guard on the sword-arm side
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