tyre

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   pneumatic tyres

2. 2
   noun

   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

3. 3
   verb

   To 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.

4. 4
   noun

   Curdled 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.

5. 5
   noun

   Attire.

   And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

6. 6
   noun

   hoop that covers a wheel

7. 7
   verb

   To adorn.

8. 8
   name

   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.

Etymology

From Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr /⁠Ṣur⁠/, “rock”) (), after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. Compare Aramaic טוּרָא / ܛܘܪܐ (ṭūrā, “mountain, high territory”), Akkadian 𒌷𒀫𒊒 (ᵁᴿᵁṣur-ru /⁠Ṣurru⁠/), Tarifit aẓru (“rock”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵥⵔⵓ (aẓru, “stone”), Proto-Semitic *ṯ̣Vrr- (“flint”). Cognate to Arabic صُور (ṣūr), Hebrew צוֹר (Tzor), Tiberian Hebrew צר (Ṣōr), Turkish Sur.