Tier

ter, n. A row or rank, esp. when 2 or more rows are placed one above another. [F. tire, a pull, stretch, reach, stroke, hit, tirer, to draw, drag, stretch, fling, Sp. and Pg. tira, a strip of cloth; AS. teran, Goth, tairan = E. tear, also E tirade, re- — Tiers of a cuble. The ranges of windings of a cable, laid one within another when coiled. Tierce, ters or ters, n. A cask whose content 1-Sd of a pipe, or 42 wine gallon*; also, a liquid measure of 42 wine, or 35 imperial, gallons a cask for packing salt provisions for shipping, containing 336 pounds. (Mus.) A third: see Third, under Three. (Card-playing.) A sequence of 3 cards of the same suit. A particular sort of thrust in fencing. (Rom. Cath. Ch.) The 3d hour of the day, from 8 to 9 A. m. the service appropriate to [F., fern, of tiers, L. tertius, the third: see Three.] — Tier'cel,