[ANSTHRLD] Odd question

[Alasdair MacEogan]

Darin Herndon <darin.herndon at chk.com> wrote:
>  If visually you move the vertical line of division to the left (as you are viewing it), aka towards the dexter side, 
>  so that the arms look like they are one-third one tincture and two-thirds another then what you have is a 
>  tierce on the dexter side.  A tierce is an ordinary (it is a thing laying on the field) covering about one third 
>  of the space.  Unless things have changed, you cannot charge a tierce (put something onto it).

See this page ( http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Templates/Ordinaries/index.htm ) and search for Tierce for an example.  Sometimes it helps to see a picture. :-D

Alasdair