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s | tierce |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective tierce is

(heraldry) divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    tierce

    English

    (wikipedia tierce)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1851 ,
    • Have an eye to the molasses tierce , Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
    • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 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.
  • (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
  • (card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
  • (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
  • (heraldiccharge) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
  • (religion, Roman Catholic) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
  • (obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

    • Anagrams

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