TIERCE
/ˈtɜːs/
8
Scrabble
9
WWF
T(1) I(1) E(1) R(1) C(3) E(1)
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Definition
/ˈtɜːs/
noun
- The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- The service appointed for this hour.
- A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
noun
- A third.
- A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
Source: Wiktionary
