The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TIERCES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1961.
Fencing positions crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TIERCES | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fencing positions
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- octave
- guard
- locks
- point
- quinte
- tierce
- points
- prime
- reverse
- quarte
- seconde
- septime
Crossword Answer definitions
TIERCES noun- The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- The service appointed for this hour.
- A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
- A third.
- A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
- The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
- One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
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