peece
English
Alternative forms
Noun
peece (plural peeces)
- (obsolete) A fortress.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, VII, xxix:
- The Prince beheld the peece, which site and art / Impregnable had made on every part.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, VII, xxix:
Verb
peece (third-person singular simple present peeces, present participle peecing, simple past and past participle peeced)
- Obsolete form of piece.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for peece in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 61
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