tierces

Meaning of tierces

noun
  1. The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
  2. The service appointed for this hour.
  3. A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
noun
  1. A third.
  2. 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.
  3. The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
  4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
  5. The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  6. An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
  7. 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 tierces

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of tierces is: tierce.
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Hyphenation of tierces

tierces

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • tierces is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tierces synonyms

Meaning :

undermeal, undern, underntide, undertide

Anagrams of tierces

cerites, recites

Words that rhyme with tierces

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