TIERCE

6 letters 8 Scrabble points /ˈtɜːs/

Definition of TIERCE

noun
  1. The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).

  2. The service appointed for this hour.

  3. A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

noun
  1. A third.

  2. 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.

  3. The third tone of the scale. See mediant.

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters T I E R C E
Length 6 letters
Scrabble Score 8 points

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