tiring

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tiring

  1. present participle of tire

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tiring (plural tirings)

  1. (uncountable) The action of tiring.
  2. (falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.
    • 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
      Oꝛ ellis take peꝛcelli Rootis and ſeꝛue hiꝛ with theyem in the ſame maneꝛ, and when ſhe tyrith holde rew ī yowre honde with the tyring and that ſhall make hiꝛ voide, bot it is peꝛlous to vſe it often that the Juce fall neꝛ ſpꝛyug in to hiꝛ yghes.

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tiring (comparative more tiring, superlative most tiring)

  1. That tires or tire.
    Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.

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