Crossword-Solution: TIERCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tierce | n. | 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. |
| Tierce | n. | A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. |
| Tierce | n. | The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. |
| Tierce | n. | A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. |
| Tierce | n. | A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. |
| Tierce | n. | The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour. |
| Tierce | a. | Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TIERCE | anagram | CERITE, RECITE |
We have 22 clues for the answer “TIERCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Three-card sequence | 1 answer |
| Third hour | 1 answer |
| Third canonical%C2%A0hour | 1 answer |
| Position in fencing. | 1 answer |
| Old measure of capacity | 1 answer |
| Old cask. | 1 answer |
| Defensive position in fencing | 1 answer |
| 42 wine gal. | 1 answer |
| Third canonical hour | 2 answers |
| trichotomy | 3 answers |
| trisection | 3 answers |
| old liquid measure | 3 answers |
| LITTLE hours | 4 answers |
| position fencing | 4 answers |
| wine cask | 6 answers |
| DEFENSIVE fencing position | 8 answers |
| Third __ | 8 answers |
| PARRYING position (fencing) | 10 answers |
| Wine measure. | 11 answers |
| Canonical hour | 15 answers |
| cask | 19 answers |
| Fencing position | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TIERCE (5)
When the King had made his orison therein, he cometh back again and setteth on his bridle and saddle and mounteth, and taketh his shield and spear and departeth from the little house and entereth into the forest and rideth a great pace, until he cometh at right hour of tierce to one of the fairest laundes that ever a man might see.
For a moment his point seemed to La Tour d’Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.
Florence, within the ancient circle wherefrom she still takes both tierce and nones,[4] was abiding in sober and modest peace.
Tierce is the first division of the canonical hours of the day, from six to nine; nones, the third, from twelve to three.
Some preliminary passes we made from the first engagement in the lines of tierce, each playing warily for an opening, yet neither of us giving ground or betraying haste or excitement.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1947–2011).