peece

English

Alternative forms

• piece

Noun

peece (plural peeces)

1. (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.

Verb

peece (third-person singular simple present peeces, present participle peecing, simple past and past participle peeced)

1. Obsolete form of piece.

References

• “peece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Etymology

From Middle English pece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːs/
• Homophone: pace

Noun

peece

1. piece

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 61