tyre

noun

1. The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

   “pneumatic tyres”

   “runflat tyres”

2. The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.

   “iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse”

   “tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings”

   “It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.”

3. (India, uncountable)Curdled milk.

   “The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.”

4. (obsolete, uncountable)Attire.

   “And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre”

verb

1. (transitive)To fit tyres to (a vehicle).

   “The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.”

2. (obsolete)To adorn.

name

1. A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
2. An unincorporated community in Austin Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States, named after the biblical Tyre.
3. A town and hamlet therein, in Seneca County, New York, United States, named after Tyre, Lebanon.
4. A surname
5. A male given name.