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Tye
Definitions
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A city in Taylor County, Texas, United States, named after John P. Tye. countable, uncountable
- 3 A ghost town in King County, Washington, United States, presumably named after the Tye River, named after W. H. Tye. Renamed from Wellington in 1910 after an avalanche disaster. countable, uncountable
- 4 A hamlet on Hayling Island, Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7302). countable, uncountable
- 1 Obsolete form of tie. alt-of, obsolete
"the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye"
- 2 A trough for washing ores.
"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[…]"
- 3 A patch of common land, often a village green. British
- 4 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.
- 1 Obsolete form of tie. alt-of, obsolete
"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."
Etymology
A variant of tie.
Inherited from Middle English teye (“chest, coffer”), from a combination of Old English tēah and Old French teie (both "chest").
From Old English tīh (“plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīh. Cognate with Old Frisian ty (“thingstead”), Middle Low German tî, tigge, whence northern German Thie (“old thingstead, village square”).
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