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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Tier

Ti'er, n.

noun

n. 1. One who, or that which, ties. 2. A child's apron without sleeves, and covering the upper part of the body; a pinafore. [Written also tire.]

Tiēr, n.

noun

(tēr), n. [A-S. tiēr, rank, series, heap, attire, tir, tyr, splendor, brightness, O. H. Ger. ziari, zieri, N. H. Ger. zier, ornament; whence O. Fr. tiere, Pr. tiera, It. tiera, train, attendance. See TIRE.]

  1. A row or rank, especially when two or more rows are placed one above another; as, a tier of seats in a church or theater.
  2. (Mus.) A row of pipes in an organ, in the front of the instrument, or in the interior, when the compound stops have several ranks of pipes.

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