tiro

plural tiros · plural tiroes

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of tyro.

   [T]he three chief periods or stages are so unmistakably indicated by the mere text itself, and so easily recognisable by the veriest tiro in the school of Shakespeare, […]

   1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “First Period: Lyric and Fantastic”, in A Study of Shakespeare, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 14

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   Schools, unleſs diſcipline vvhere doubly ſtrong, / Detain their adoleſcent charge too long. / The management of Tiro's of eighteen / Is difficult, their puniſhment obſcene.

   1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 305

alternative Thiro · alternative Tira

1. A Niger-Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in South Kordofan, Sudan.