Tye

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a knot
  • n. a patch of common land, often a village green.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A knot; a tie.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A trough for washing ores.
  • v. See tie, the proper orthography.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An obsolete or archaic spelling of tie.
  • n. An obsolete or archaic spelling of tie.
  • n. Nautical, the part of a topsail-halyard which passes through a block or sheave-hole at the masthead, and is attached to the yard.
  • n. In mining, a kind of narrow buddle used with a quick current of water for roughly washing tin or lead ore.
  • To wash with the tye, as ore. Compare tye, n.
  • Word Usage
    "Between Kingscote and West Hoathly, a short distance to the south-west of East Grinstead, is another "tye" -- Gravetye, a tudor mansion in a deep hollow, the home of Mr. William Robinson, the author of _The English"
    Cross Reference
    peak-tye   
    Variant
    tie   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    knot    tie   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ai    Alai    Ally    Bi    Bligh    Bly    Brunei    Cai    Cy    Dai   
    Same Context
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