tyres

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
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

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

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