tyre

plural tyres · alternative US tire

1. The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

   runflat tyres

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   pneumatic tyres

2. The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.

   iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse

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   tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings

   It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.

   1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237

present singular third person tyres · participle present tyring · participle past tyred · past tyred · alternative US tire

1. transitiveTo fit tyres to (a vehicle).

   The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

   1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552

1. IndiauncountableCurdled milk.

   The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.

   1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […] , page 954

1. obsoleteuncountableAttire.

   And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   But for a dreſſing for her head I thinke for her I haue a Tyer, That all Fayryes ſhall admyre.

   1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, Lately diſcouered, by a New Way over Parnassvs, London: Thomas Harper, page 67

present singular third person tyres · participle present tyring · participle past tyred · past tyred

1. obsoleteTo adorn.

alternative Tyrus

1. A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
2. An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
3. A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.

plural Tyres

1. A surname
2. A male given name.