tier : Idioms & Phrases

Index

Cable tier

  • . (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable.
Webster 1913

Ground tier

  • . (a) The lowest tier of water casks in a vessel's hold. Totten. (b) The lowest line of articles of any kind stowed in a vessel's hold. (c) The lowest range of boxes in a theater.
Webster 1913

Leaf tier

  • (Zoöl.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk; esp., Teras cinderella, found on the apple tree.
Webster 1913

tier up

  • noun a worker who ties something
    tier.
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tiers etat

Tiers` é`tat" (Also<
  • Tiers etat
  • Tiers état
)
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy. ✍ The refusal of the clergy and nobility to give the tiers état a representation in the States-general proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the term has been purely historical.
Webster 1913

Tiers of a cable

  • the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.
Webster 1913

two-tier bid

  • noun a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares
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