tye

plural tyes

1. obsoleteObsolete form of tie.

   the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

   1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding., Section 3. § 6

2. nauticalA chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.

plural tyes

1. businessA trough for washing ores.

   But if each Ore is of equal gravit , and I apprehend some poor Tin Ore, which they call dry for Metal, may be less ponderous than Copper Ore) if the tye will not separate them, they should be first cleansed[…]

   1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis

plural tyes

1. UKA patch of common land, often a village green.

present singular third person tyes · participle present tyeing · participle past tyed · past tyed

1. obsoleteObsolete form of tie.

   Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.

   1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20

plural Tyes

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA city in Taylor County, Texas, United States, named after John P. Tye.
3. countableuncountableA ghost town in King County, Washington, United States, presumably named after the Tye River, named after W. H. Tye. Renamed from Wellington in 1910 after an avalanche disaster.
4. countableuncountableA hamlet on Hayling Island, Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7302).