tye

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See also: Tye, tyè, and t'ye

English

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Etymology 1

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A variant of tie.

Noun

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tye (plural tyes)

  1. Obsolete form of tie.
    • 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 or tye
  2. (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.

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle English teye (chest, coffer), from a combination of Old English tēah and Old French teie (both "chest").

Noun

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tye (plural tyes)

  1. (mining) A trough for washing ores.
    • 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 the tye will not separate them, they should be first cleansed []

Etymology 3

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From Old English tīh (plot of land), from Proto-West Germanic *tīh. Cognate with Old Frisian ty (thingstead), Middle Low German , tigge, whence northern German Thie (old thingstead, village square).

Noun

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tye (plural tyes)

  1. (British) A patch of common land, often a village green.

Etymology 4

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Verb

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tye (third-person singular simple present tyes, present participle tyeing, simple past and past participle tyed)

  1. Obsolete form of tie.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. []”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: [] Benj[amin] Motte, [], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:
      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 there tyed faſt.

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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tye

  1. plural of tyd (time)
  2. plural of ty (tide)

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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tye

  1. Alternative form of teye (cord, chain)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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tye

  1. Alternative form of teye (chest, enclosure)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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tye

  1. Alternative form of teyen

Sranan Tongo

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Interjection

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tye

  1. oh