Tierce

1.

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.

2.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

3.

The third tone of the scale.

4.

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

5.

A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

6.

The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

1.

Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.