Tierce comes from the Latin word for ''third'' and may refer to: * Tiercé, a commune in France * Tierce (fencing), a fencing manoeuvre *

Tierce (unit) The tierce (also ''terse'') is both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the Barrel, cask of that size. The most common definitions are either one-third of a English wine cask units#Units, pipe or forty-two gallons. In the pet ...

, both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the cask of that size * Tierce, an

organ stop An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as ''wind'') to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; each can be "on" (admitting the passage of a ...

, also known as a seventeenth * Tierce, an archaic term for one- sixtieth of a second * Tierce, a horse racing bet type also known as a

trifecta Trifecta A trifecta is a parimutuel bet placed on a horse race in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third, in the exact order. Known as a trifecta in the US and Australia, this is known as a tricast in ...

* ''Tierced'' in heraldry, the dividing of the field into three sections, ''per pale'' or ''per fess''

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