tirasse

English

Noun

tirasse (plural tirasses)

1. (very rare) A pedal-coupler in organ-building.
   • 1995, Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, page 203:

     This way is not only more beautiful but more difficult, unless one is assisted by a Tirasse or Marche Pieds.

   • 2006, Douglas Earl Bush, The Organ: An Encyclopedia, page 569:

     In early and middle-period instruments (through at least 1875), only the Grand Orgue, or possibly the Positif, was equipped with a Tirasse.

Anagrams

• arisest, raisest, satires

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French

Verb

tirasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of tirer

Anagrams

• râtisse, râtissé, résista, restais, starise, starisé, stérais, tarisse, tersais, tissera, tressai, triasse

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Italian

Verb

tirasse

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of tirare

Anagrams

• asserti, astersi, resista, rissate, ristesa, saresti, traessi

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Portuguese

Verb

tirasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of tirar