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. === References === “peece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English pece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɛːs/ === Noun === peece piece === References === 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