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"(heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag."
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"topics": [
"government",
"heraldry",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"monarchy",
"nobility",
"politics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)"
],
"links": [
[
"second",
"second"
],
[
"sexagesimal",
"sexagesimal"
],
[
"third",
"third"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɪəs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɪɚs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɜːs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)s"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜːs"
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "unit of liquid measure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tercer"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"tierce"
],
"word": "tierce"
}
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