Dictionary Entry
tierce
tierce is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- 3noun
The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
- 4noun
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
- 5noun
A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
- 6noun
The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
- 7adjective
Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
- 8noun
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
"it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
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- 9noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- 10noun
the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.
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