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Quotation dates: 1531-1684
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Tyre, n.2 Also: tire, teare. [ME and e.m.E. tir (1346), tier (1569), tire (1590), tere (1686), OF tire, tyre.] A rank, row or course. b. ? coll. A number of rows making up a stack (of wooden boards). 1573 Cal. Sc. P. IV 475.
vj cannons … in loopes of stone … and behynd … another teare of ordina[nce] lyke xvj foote clym above the other 1632 Lithgow Trav. ii 54.
[A] man of war … carrying two tyre of ordonnance a1603 Tract. Leg. Naval. 65.
For stoiring of wynes The mariner who stoires it getts fie for it, for ther will be some off four or fyve tyre high 1647 Glasgow B. Rec. II 117.
For repaireing of the mylle brig … to repaire and dres and make [it] ane staine braider, and the pen and twa tyre heicht on the ledges 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 14.
A blunderbush … Of terrible report and crack, As have a lower tire of guns, Shot from a ship of many tuns 1684 Lauder Notices Affairs II 538.
Mo tyres of freinges on ther petticoats than oneb. 1531–2 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 58.
To the pynouris in Leith for d[r]awin out and sorting of the … forsaidis … gestis out of the grete tyre
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