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Wheal vs Tire - What's the difference?

wheal | tire |

As nouns the difference between wheal and tire

is that wheal is a small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc or wheal can be (uk|dialect|cornwall|mining) a mine while tire is bundle, skein, hank.

wheal

English

Etymology 1

Compare wale. (wikipedia wheal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
    • Synonyms
    * wale * weal * welt

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hwel.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) A mine.
  • * 1829 , Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire , page 528,
    • The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal' Crowndale, '''Wheal''' Crebor, East Liscombe, and ' Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which ranges as usual from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length.
  • * 2003 , Peter Long, The Hidden Places of Cornwall , page 85,
    • Surrounding the village are the remains ot many mine workings including the picturesque gtoup of clifftop buildings thar were once part of one of the county's best known mines - Wheal Coares.
  • * 2010 , , Julia Bradbury's Railway Walks , page 27,
    • If you look at the map there are ‘wheals’ all over the place. There's Wheal' Rose, '''Wheal''' Plenty and '''Wheal''' Busy. Back on the tramroad the industrial communities come thick and fast as you head southeast to ' Wheal Rose.
    Usage notes
    Chiefly appears in the names of mines in Cornwall and Devon.

    Anagrams

    * English terms with homophones

    tire

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Verb

    (tir) (of)
  • To become sleepy or weary.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.}}
  • To make sleepy or weary.
  • To become bored or impatient (with)
    • I tire of this book.
  • To bore
    • Synonyms
    *
    Related terms
    * tiresome

    References

    External links

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * (rubber covering on a wheel) tyre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
  • * Philips
    • the tire of war
  • (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
    • Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
  • *, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
    • men like apes follow the fashions in tires , gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
  • A covering for the head; a headdress.
  • * Spenser
    • On her head she wore a tire of gold.
  • Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  • (lb) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
  • A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
    • Usage notes
    * Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.
    Related terms
    * spare tire

    Verb

    (tir)
  • (obsolete) To dress or adorn.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
    • [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
    Related terms
    * tiring-house

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * tyre

    Verb

    (tir)
  • (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
  • (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • * Chapman
    • Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Upon that were my thoughts tiring .

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tier, row, or rank.
  • * Milton
    • In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

    Anagrams

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