He then gave me a large piece of silver coin, such as I never had seen or had before, and told me to get ready for the voyage, and he would credit me with atierce of sugar, and another of rum[…].
Have an eye to the molassestierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers,A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page205:
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
[W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, intierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.
