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Defensive position in fencing
Answer for the clue "Defensive position in fencing ", 6 letters:
tierce
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context heraldry English) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The tierce (also terse ) is both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the cask of that size. The most common definitions are either one-third of a pipe or forty-two gallons .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. [syn: terce ] the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three , 3 , III , trio , threesome , leash , troika , triad , trine , trinity , ternary , ternion , triplet , tercet , terzetto , trey ...
Usage examples of tierce.
Quarte, tierce, and saccoon, say I, and the devil take your estramacons and passados!
Then, just before the hour of tierce, the great lairdsMoray, Lovat, Ayr, Midlothian, Aberdeen, Ross, Angus, Banff, Argyll and Berwickappeared in company with the Lord Marshal, James Stewart, to announce that King Alexander had died of his wounds in the night, as, too, had Cardinal de Mandojana.
Knowing himself to be nearly done, he attempted a botte coupee, feinting in high carte and thrusting in a low tierce.
Tierce said, not quite insubordinately, as he handed Flim's drink back to him.
In spite of the complaints of the French as to the nonobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather disgraceful to fight with a cudgel and they wanted to assume a pose en quarte or en tierce according to all the rules, and to make an adroit thrust en prime, and so on the cudgel of the people's war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic strength, and without consulting anyone's tastes or rules and regardless of anything else, it rose and fell with stupid simplicity, but consistently, and belabored the French till the whole invasion had perished.
Tierce after Tierce, too, of water, and bread, and beef, and shooks of staves, and iron bundles of hoops, were hoisted out, till at last the piled decks were hard to get about.
I immediately got a friend to have two tierces of seed forwarded to me.
The Admiral contributed three tierces of a noble claret to the cargo, observing that he should willingly drink green tea for the rest of the commission rather than jeopardize Ariel's chances.