retyre
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retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)
- (transitive, British spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tyres.
- 2013, Alan Davies, Walkden Yard and the Lancashire Central Railways Colliery Locomotives:
- Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point.
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retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)
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retyre
- (obsolete) retirement
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Now surely , Syre , I find,
That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire,
Be but vaine shadows to this safe retyre