title: Tierce
text: # Tierce
  
  Tierce comes from the Latin word for third and may refer to:
  
  * Tiercé, a commune in France
  * Tierce (fencing), 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, 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
  