tierce
Meaning of tierce
noun
- The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- The service appointed for this hour.
- A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
- A third.
- A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
- The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
- One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
Information about tierce
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tierce is: tierces.
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Hyphenation of tierce
tierce
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- tierce is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
tierce synonyms
Meaning terce:
Meaning three:
three, trio, threesome, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey
Meaning one-third:
Meaning :
undermeal, undern, underntide, undertide
Anagrams of tierce
cerite, Certie, certie, recite
Words that rhyme with tierce
Erce, Peerce, inherce, Bierce, Pierce, Tierce, bepierce, countertierce, effierce, empierce, enfierce, fierce, impierce, overfierce, pierce, transpierce, unfierce, alerce, Commerce, Merce, amerce, commerce, merce, coerce, Perce, emperce, perce, Terce, sesterce, terce, exerce
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