tierce
teers
- n the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.
- n the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- n one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- As the horses pounded down the homestretch, Parisian Maurice Luca was certain that he had picked a winning tierce.
- In his journal, he usually timed events by "tierce, vespers and compline, three of the canonical hours of prayer.
- Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy .