tye

See also: Tye, tyè, and t'ye

English

A variant of tie.

tye (plural tyes)

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
(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.

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

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(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 […]

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”).

tye (plural tyes)

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

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.

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