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plural tyres
The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid. examples
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. quotations examples
It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.
1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237
third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred
(transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle). quotations examples
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
uncountable
(India) Curdled milk. quotations examples
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
(obsolete) Attire. quotations examples
And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(obsolete) To adorn. examples