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English

Pronunciation
italbrac|RP IPA|/�tɪ�s/
italbrac|US IPA|/�tɪ�s/
italbrac|RP IPA|/�t��s/ (card)

Etymology
From OF. #French|tierce.

Noun
en-noun

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.

Category:Units of measure
#:Quotations
#:*1882, Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.

1. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
2. music The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
3. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
4. fencing The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
5. heraldiccharge An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
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.

French

Etymology
From L. tertia.

Adjective
tierce (plural: tierces)

#feminine of|tiers

Noun
en-noun

#music third
#terce

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