tas

noun

1. 1.A heap, pile.
2. 2.A cup or cupful.
3. 3.An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread.
4. 4.A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.