tye
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forKyenga.
A variant oftie.
tye (pluraltyes)
- Obsolete form oftie.
1748, David Hume,Enquiry concerning Human Understanding., Section 3. § 6:the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond ortye
- (nautical) A 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.
Inherited fromMiddle Englishteye(“chest, coffer”), from a combination ofOld Englishtēah andOld Frenchteie(both "chest").
tye (pluraltyes)
- (mining) Atrough for washingores.
1778, William Pryce,Mineralogia Cornubiensis: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 thetye will not separate them, they should be first cleansed[…]
FromOld Englishtīh(“plot of land”), fromProto-West Germanic*tīh. Cognate withOld Frisianty(“thingstead”),Middle Low Germantî,tigge, whence northernGermanThie(“old thingstead, village square”).
tye (pluraltyes)
- (British) A patch ofcommon land, often avillage green.
tye (third-person singular simple presenttyes,present participletyeing,simple past and past participletyed)
- Obsolete form oftie.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […],→OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput),page20: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 theretyed faſt.
tye
- plural oftyd(“time”)
- plural ofty(“tide”)
tye
- alternative form ofteye(“cord, chain”)
tye
- alternative form ofteye(“chest, enclosure”)
tye
- alternative form ofteyen
tye
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