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Tierce
Tierce Tierce, n. [F. tierce a third, from tiers, tierce, third, fr. L. tertius the third; akin to tres three. See Third, Three, and cf. Terce, Tercet, Tertiary.] 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. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. 4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. 5. (Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. 6. (R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

Meaning of Tierces from wikipedia

- Look up tierce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tierce comes from the Latin word for third and may refer to: Tiercé, a commune in France Tierce (fencing)...
- Australia, this is known as a tricast in the UK, a tierce in Hong Kong, a triactor in Canada and a tiercé in France. A trio, offered in Hong Kong and France...
- 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...
- and Rebans. The Tierces section also has easier blue and red runs such as Coins (blue) and Tierces (red). From most places in the Tierces section one can...
- A Picardy third, (/ˈpɪkərdi/; French: tierce picarde) also known as a Picardy cadence or Tierce de Picardie, is a major chord of the tonic at the end...
- Tiercé (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁse] ) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department "Répertoire...
- Merritt Tierce is an American short story author, story editor, essayist, activist, and novelist. Tierce was born in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers'...
- the numbers often referred to by the old French terms: prime, seconde, tierce, quarte, quinte, sixte, septième, octave. For a right-handed fencer, the...
- Étude pour les cinq doigts (2:54) Étude pour les tierces (3:25) Étude pour les quartes (4:09) Étude pour les sixtes (3:22) Étude pour les octaves (2:16)...
- The soprano flute (also called a third flute or tierce flute) is a type of flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is pitched in E♭, a minor...