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tye¹

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A variant of tie.

noun tyes

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of tie the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye
  2. 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.

tye²

Where it comes from

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

noun tyes

  1. 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[…]

tye³

Where it comes from

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”).

noun tyes

  1. UK A patch of common land, often a village green.

tye⁴

verb tyes · tyeing · tyed

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of tie 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.

Tye⁵

proper noun Tyes

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A city in Taylor County, Texas, United States, named after John P. Tye.
  3. countable, uncountable 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.
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet on Hayling Island, Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7302).

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@misc{tye_2026,
  title = {tye},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tye},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}