- a church hour - Church service hour - 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.