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.
References
- 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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