tierce

A third.

Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.

A cask of a certain size, or its volume used as a measure of capacity. Larger than a barrel but smaller than a hogshead.

He then gave me a large piece of silver coin, such as I never had seen or had before, and told me to get ready for the voyage, and he would credit me with a tierce of sugar, and another of rum […].

Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.

The third tone of the scale. See mediant.

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.

A surname from French.