Tierce

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A third.
2. isim Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
3. isim A cask of a certain size, or its volume used as a measure of capacity. Larger than a barrel but smaller than a hogshead.

   “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. isim The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
5. isim A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
6. isim 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. isim An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
8. isim 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.)
9. sıfat Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.
10. özel isim A surname from French.