Piece

s. (piece, French.) 1. A patch CAimsworth). 2. A part of a whole; a fragment (Acts). 3. A part (Til lots on). 4. A picture (Dryden). 5. A composition; performance (Add is on). 6. A coin; a single piece of money (Prior). 7. d-prece, To each (More). 8. Of a Prece with. Like; of the same sort; united; the same with the rest (Dryden). Preces, in the military art, include all sorts of great guns and mortars. Battering pieces are the larger sort of guns used as sieges for _ making the breaches, such are the twenty four pounder, and culverin, the one carrying twenty-four, and the other an eighteen pound ball. Field pieces are twelve-pounders, demieulverins, six-pounders, sakers, minions, and three-pounders, which march with the army, and encamp always behind the second line, but in the day of battle are in the front. soldier’s firelock is likewise called his piece.