tierce
/teers/US // tɪərs //UK // (tɪəs) //
猛烈抨击,猛烈,猛烈的,凶猛
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- : a cask or vessel holding this quantity.
- : Also terce [turs] /tɜrs/ .Ecclesiastical. the third of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the third hour of the day.
- : Fencing. the third of eight defensive positions.
- : Piquet. a sequence of three cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, and queen , or a king, queen, and jack .
- : Obsolete. a third or third part.
Examples
You strike high tierce like lightning and your blade is back in guard—oh yes!
And he killed him with a beautiful feint and thrust in tierce.
Occasionally they bought a cask—a tierce of forty-two gallons—and bottled it at home.
At tierce they are rung three times, for the second, third, and fourth hours which are then chanted.
This letter announced a small barrel of biscuit, a tierce of wine, a half tierce of brandy, and a Dutch cheese.
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