tyre

Noun (1)

tyre (plural tyres)

1. 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
   • runflat 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
   • tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings

Verb (1)

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (transitive) 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.1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552

Noun (2)

tyre (uncountable)

1. (India) 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.1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […] , page 954

Noun (3)

tyre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Attire.
   • And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • 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

Verb (2)

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (obsolete) To adorn.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tyre

UK/ˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

Tyre

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.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tyre

Tyre (plural Tyres)

1. A surname
2. A male given name.