tierce

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɪəs/|/ˈtɜːs/    美 /ˈtɪɚs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A third. obsolete
  2. Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
  3. A cask of a certain size, or its volume used as a measure of capacity. Larger than a barrel but smaller than a hogshead. historical
    — 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 […].
  4. The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
  5. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
  6. The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
    — [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.
  7. An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
  8. 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.) obsolete

词形变化

tierces plural

词汇关系

相关词
tierced tierce de Picardie

词源

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.
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