piece

nounpart

nounwork of art, music, writing
verbput together

Word Origin & History

c.1200, "fixed amount, measure, portion," from Old French piece "piece, bit portion; item; coin" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish *pettsi (cf. Welsh peth "thing," Breton pez "piece, a little"), perhaps from an Old Celtic base *kwezd-i-, from PIE root *kwezd- "a part, piece" (cf. Russian chast' "part"). Related: Pieces.

Sense of "portable firearm" first recorded 1580s; that of "chessman" is from 1560s. Meaning "person regarded as a sex object" is first recorded 1785 (cf. piece of ass, human beings colloquially called piece of flesh from 1590s; cf. also Latin scortum "bimbo, anyone available for a price," ...

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Round this a piece of leather is stretched and dressed with emery.

This piece, with the exception of a few lines, has appeared in the Athenaeum.

But I was proposing--I wanted to deed that piece of marsh to you boys!

Her mother had brought her a piece of seed-cake and a cup of milk with the cream on it.

I dismounted, and went forward to strike it with a piece of wood.

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