Crossword-Solution: TIERCES 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Hudson, wine coopers, at work drawing out a tierce of wine for the sending of some of it to my wife, I abroad, only taking notice to what a condition it hath pleased God to bring me that at this time I have two tierces of Claret, two quarter casks of Canary, and a smaller vessel of Sack; a vessel of Tent, another of Malaga, and another of white wine, all in my wine cellar together; which, I believe, none of my friends of my name now alive ever had of his owne at one time.

Give me the sword, Carlton-I've a great horror, in such cases, of 'villanous saltpetre.'" "I have no taste in such matters; but knowing the boasted prowess of Signor Petro with the sword, I preferred that weapon, though I think you have seen me do some pretty things with the pistol, Brownlow? It was a silly fancy I had when a boy to learn its use." "An' I had carte and tierces at my fingers' ends as thou hast, I would give a thousand pounds," said his companion.

Accordingly, besides the usual number of casks on deck, rows of immense tierces were lashed amid-ships, all along the _between-decks,_ forming a sort of aisle on each side, furnishing access to four rows of bunks,—three tiers, one above another,—against the ship’s sides; two tiers being placed over the tierces of water in the middle.

During the busy season one hundred and twenty tierces of pure lard and forty tierces of soap grease are drawn off daily.

The American crop of rice in 1848, reached 162,058 tierces in market, and of these 160,330 tierces were exported from South Carolina.