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tierce

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɪəs/Part of speech nounSorted ceeirtStarts with TEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

Word origin

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

Used in a sentence

  • He then gave me a large piece of silver coin, such as I never had seen or had before, and told me to get ready for the voyage, and he would credit me with a tierce of sugar, and another of rum […].
  • Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
  • [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.

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