retyre

present singular third person retyres · participle present retyring · participle past retyred · past retyred · alternative retire · alternative re-tire

1. UKtransitiveTo fit (a vehicle) with new tyres.

   Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point.

   2013, Alan Davies, Walkden Yard and the Lancashire Central Railways Colliery Locomotives

present singular third person retyres · participle present retyring · participle past retyred · past retyred

1. obsoleteObsolete form of retire (“to withdraw”).

1. obsoleteretirement

   Now surely , Syre , I find, That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire, Be but vaine shadows to this safe retyre

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC