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▪ I. tye, tie, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. and local.|taɪ|
Forms: α. 1 téaᵹ, tǽᵹ, téᵹ, 5 tee; β. 1 tíᵹ, 5 tigh, ty, 4– tye, 5–6, 9 tie.
[OE. téaᵹ, téah, which agrees in forms with tie n. and tye n.2, and is treated by Bosw.-Toller and Sweet as the same word. The sense-history is unknown; the connexion of the senses here included is also uncertain.]
†1. A small box or case for jewels and other valuables; a casket. Obs.
αc725Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1300 Mantega, taeᵹ. Ibid. 2010 Tehis [for techis, thecis], teᵹum, fodrum. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xxiii. 764 Þa feng se port-ᵹerefa to þære teᵹe and..hi uninsæᵹlode. 1027–34Laws of Cnut ii. c. 76 §1 Hyre hordern and hyre cyste and hyre teᵹe [MS. B. tæᵹan]. 1477Inventory in Lanc. Wills (1884) 4 A Tee wth other coofers.
βc1050Gloss in Wr.-Wülcker 443/8 Mantega, tiᵹ. 1390Gower Conf. II. 246 Tho tok sche forth a riche Tye Mad al of gold and of Perrie, Out of the which sche nam a Ring. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5870 Thei robbed clene al that thei founde..Off gold, siluer, & riche druri, That thei fond in coffres and ty. Ibid. 9983 Ȝoure brochis brode & al ȝoure byes That now ligges In ȝoure tyes. c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 2951 Scho..broght the rynge anoon That lay loken in hir tie [rime eie]. 1460Will of Spenser (Somerset Ho.), Cum duabus cistis..altera vocata spruce tigh. 1535in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 116 A croke, a tye, and v silver spones.
2. Mining (Cornwall). A deep trough or box used for collecting the dross and refuse in washing ore.
1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 8 §1 Onelesse the saide diggar owner or wassher shall make..sufficient hatches and tyes in the end of thir buddels and cordes and therin putt..all the sande stones gravell and robell digged about the inserching fynding and wasshing of the said Tynne there to be holly and suerlie kepte by the said hatches and ties oute and frome the said fresshe rivers. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornw., etc. xv. 578 The tye is a long, narrow, inclined furrow, through which passes a stream of water, three or four times larger than that used in buddling. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1245 The latter is sometimes thrown away, and at others is subjected to the operation called the tie, viz., a washing upon the sloping bottom of a long trough.
3. A pit or trench from which turf or peat is dug. local (Devon).
1836A. E. Bray Descr. Tamar & Tavy I. xx. 348 A turf tye, that is, a pit from which they dig turfs for fuel. 1873Q. Rev. July 159 Dartmoor turf-cutters..labouring in the solitary ‘ties’, as the turf-trenches are called.
4. The stuffed case forming a mattress or pillow: = tick n.2 Also bed-tye, pillow-tye. (Cf. tay, tey.) Now dial.
1615Crooke Body of Man 143 This Membrane..is rowled in plentifull fat, & so serueth the Kidneyes instead of a couering, of a tye, and of a soft pillow or bolster. 1847–78[see pillow n. 6]. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Z. I. vii. 110 We'll lift you on to a feather tye. 1898Mrs. C. P. Penberthy Warp & Woof Cornish Life ii. 13 The bed-tie and pillows..was..in a pawn shop... There was the very tie, I knawed un in a minute.
5. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 2): tye-lift (see lift n.2 12); tye-pit, a pit for collecting the refuse in washing ore.
1602Carew Cornwall 154 b, They have a tye-pit, not so much satisfying use, as relieving necessitie. 1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 16 To take up the superficial streams, by..grooves cut in the walls..of the Lode, to convey them either into the adit or tye lift of pumps. 1905Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Tye (Devon.), ‘Be careful now and don't go near the tie-pit.’
▪ II. tye, tie, n.2 local.|taɪ|
Forms: 1 téaᵹ, 5– tye (also 7 tie).
[OE. téaᵹ, by Bosw.-Toller and Sweet held to be the same word as tie n. and tye n.1; but the connexion of sense is unexplained. Bosw.-Toller also compares ON. teigr a strip of field or meadow-land, a close or paddock, which occurs freq. in names of meadows; but OE. téaᵹ and ON. teigr are not phonetically related.]
An enclosed piece of land, enclosure, close; also, an extensive common pasture; a large common.
832Test. of Werhard in Birch Cart. Sax. I. 559 Mansionem..et clausulam quod Angli dicunt teaᵹe, quæ pertinet ad prædictam mansionem. 853Charter of ætheluulf ibid. II. 61 Circumcincta est..a meritie Bromteaᵹ. 1407in Essex Rev. XIII. 204 [A freehold called] Tye-lond. 1488Maldon, Essex, Liber B. lf. 39 (MS.) All that lane till they came dovne to Lymborn-broke on to the tye & comon ayenst Brodehedis. 1670Blount Law Dict., Tigh or Teage..a Close or Enclosure, a Croft... The word Tigh is still used in Kent in the same sense. c1700Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterb., Woolvysty 3 acres of land lying within a cross. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4453/4 Lost.., from the Tye in the Parish of Blackthorne.., a black Gelding. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tye, an extensive common pasture. There are several tyes a few miles South of the central part of Suffolk; but in no other part of East Anglia. There are also some on the Northern border of Essex. 1884Daily News 23 Sept. 6/6 In almost every parish was a ‘heath’, tie, common, or green, where the poor of the parish had certain rights. 1887Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial., Tye, Tie, an extensive common pasture. Such as Waldershare Tie.
▪ III. tye, tie, v. Mining. (local.)
[f. tye n.1 2.]
trans. To separate (the ore) from the dross or refuse by means of a ‘tye’. Hence ˈtying vbl. n.
1757in J. Lloyd Old S. Wales Iron Works (1906) 23 Pipes for carrying Air or Water underground through their lands, or Tying of Wase or Wases. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornw., etc. xv. 578 Some kinds of ore..required other operations after roasting, generally either tying by itself, or tying and jigging. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Strake (Corn.), an inclined launder for separating or tying ground ore in water.
▪ IV. tye
obs. form or var. of tie. |
