tierce

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• ⇰ पूर्वान्हिका
• ⇰ तीन लगातार पत्ते

• ⇰ 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.
• ⇰ A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
• ⇰ The third tone of the scale. See Mediant>.
• ⇰ A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called >tierce-major >.
• ⇰ A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
• ⇰ The third hour of the day, or nine <sc>a. m,</sc>; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.