English-Czech translations for tierce
Definition of tierce
- 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
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major
- An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag
- 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
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