retyre

English

Etymology 1

From re- +‎ tyre.

Alternative forms

• (US) retire, re-tire

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Verb

retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Verb

retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)

1. Obsolete form of retire. (to withdraw)

Noun

retyre

1. (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