Definition of piece

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Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece..

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Sole :: Sole (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel..
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..
Target :: Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff..
Transfer :: Transfer (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another..
Ninepins :: Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling..
Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone..
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
Shredding :: Shredding (n.) That which is cut or torn off; a piece.
Bar :: Bar (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door..
Maestoso :: Maestoso (a. & adv.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.
Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..
Heelpiece :: Heelpiece (n.) A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes..
Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece..
Swivel :: Swivel (a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century..
Confract :: Confract (a.) Broken in pieces; severed.
Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like..
Parapleura :: Parapleura (n.) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
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