资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
5. (Chess) One of the superior men, distinguished from a
pawn.
6. A castle; a fortified building. [Obs.] --Spenser.
{Of a piece}, of the same sort, as if taken from the same
whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. --Dryden.
{Piece of eight}, the Spanish piaster, formerly divided into
eight reals.
{To give a piece of one's mind to}, to speak plainly,
bluntly, or severely to (another). --Thackeray.
{Piece broker}, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to
sell again.
{Piece goods}, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed
portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.