Noun

(en noun)

Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

# A male tiger.

A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

(Dickens)

* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings

The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.

A leopard.

* 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:

Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.

(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood

Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.

(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

* Shakespeare

As for heinous tiger , Tamora.

(US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

three cheers and a tiger

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)

An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

* Addison

Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .

* Bishop Fisher

She had her shirts and girdles of hair.

* {{quote-news

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a member of the shirt-wearing team.