"fers" meaning in English

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          "text": "With their introduction the fers and the alfil disappeared from European chess.",
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          "text": "In the Chronique of Philip Mouskat (a.d. 1243), lines 23617–20, is a reference to a king of Fierges, indicating that a fers could be promoted to a king at this early period.",
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          "text": "This fers mates him in straight lines; this fers mates him at an angle.",
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        "The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen."
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        "(historical) The medieval chess piece that developed into the modern queen."
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      "word": "ferz"
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