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Tierce comes from the Latin word for ''third'' and may refer to: *
Tiercé Tiercé () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. See also * Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in ...
, a commune in France *
Tierce (fencing) A parry is a fencing bladework maneuver intended to deflect or block an incoming attack. Execution To execute a parry, fencers strike the opponent's foible, or the area near the tip of the blade, with their forte, or the part of the blade near t ...
, a fencing manoeuvre * Tierce (unit), 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 air ...
, 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 * ''Tierced'' in heraldry, the dividing of the field into three sections, ''per pale'' or ''per fess''


See also

* Terce, the third liturgical hour {{disambig