peece

English

Alternative forms

piece

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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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