peece

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English

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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peece (plural peeces)

  1. (obsolete) A fortress.

Verb

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

  1. Obsolete form of piece.

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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peece

  1. piece

References

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  • 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