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1931 Fairchild's Fabrics Buyers' Guide I. 143 (heading) Tie and muffler fabrics.

1977 Man-Made Textiles in India XX. 92/3 The attributes which make a tie fabric satisfactory in use are similar to those in a dress fabric.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 145 We reev'd..a new Strap to the Fore-top-sail Tye-block.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 76 There are two iron straps round the yard for the tye blocks to shackle to.

1970 Times 5 Mar. 13 In principle, the tie-break is an undesirable expedient, but there is a case for it in indoor tournaments confined to one court.

1974 Observer 1 Sept. 18/6 In the tie break Miss Mappin led 4–1.

1979 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 19/1 Nigel..failed in a tie-break to win the British Chess championship in August.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tie-breaker.

1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 179/1 There are several species of tie-breakers, but the one that Bill Talbert, the tournament director, selected..was the ninepoint sudden-death variety.

1971 Computers & Humanities 6 68 The identifiers will be indexed and will serve as ultimate tie-breakers in all sorting operations.

1979 G. Hammond Dead Game xiv. 188 At the end of the quiz, honours were even..and the chairman asked for a tie-breaker from the audience.

1982 Daily Tel. 21 Sept. 16/4 [Rifle-shooting.] Belither..beat Paul Kent..by a single point on a tiebreaker.

1970 Times 1 Oct. 10/6 Okker, of the Netherlands, had to battle through two tie-breaking sets to beat El Shafei..7–6, 7–6.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 265 The stratification procedure entails a large number of random assignments and tie-breakings.

1978 R. Nixon Mem. 85 His only important functions were to cast occasional tie-breaking votes in the Senate.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. i. 285 They..fastened monogrammed tie-clasps the more firmly.

1971 ‘D. Shannon’ Murder with Love (1972) ix. 153 His dapper tailoring, gold cuff links and tie-clasp.

1898–9 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 16/1 Tie clips... For holding the tie in place on shirt or blouse fronts, 2 for 5c.

1913 A. Bennett Regent iii. 83 Many parcels and boxes, comprising diverse items in the equipment of a man-about-town, such as tie-clips and Innovation trunks.

1976 ‘R. Boyle’ Cry Rape xii. 62 It wasn't an elegant tie-clip. Not the kind with a diamond or emerald in it.

1901 Daily Chron. 25 July 6/6 The girl..is a tie-maker.

1904 Longman's Mag. Aug. 306 Any moderately good tie-maker can turn out thirty ties a day in good timber.

1780 in Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. (1895) A silver tie-pin, three silver studs.

1899 Daily News 22 June 7/3 His stand-up collar and his tie-pin.

1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 757/3 ‘Watts’ tie press..9¹/ ₂ in. by 3¹/ ₄ in.

a1974 T. R. Dennis in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) iii. 354 A very cheap watch from my parents..a tie-press from a friend.

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 July 9/3 (advt.) Pipe Racks, Tie Racks and Collar Bags, regular to 75c.

1974 L. Deighton Spy Story ii. 22 Rummaging through the wardrobe I..noticed the tie rack had been moved.

1909 Daily Chron. 23 July 7/2 He tied for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ Cup and finished second in the tie shoot.

1902 Daily Chron. 23 July 6/3 The tie-shooting for the first Coronation Prize.

1887 Daily News 18 July 2/1 Many men might beat him in the tie shots.

1920 M. S. Woolman Clothing iv. 53 Ribbons, velvets, tie silks,..and knitting silks are made of this fiber.

1934 Vogue 30 May 96 (caption) Jenny makes a tailored suit of checked tie silk.

1961 Guardian 30 Mar. 9/4 Charming and practical Tie-silk shirtwaisters.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tie tack.

1962 ‘D. Shannon’ Extra Kill xi. 171 He'd always wear a tie clasp, or one of those new tie tacks.

1970 New Yorker 10 Jan. 56/3 (advt.) Peace Tie Tac.

1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 154/3 (advt.) Detective profession. Easy home study; free tie tack or lapel pin.

1880 World 29 Sept. 15 The days of ‘tie-backs’, either in the dressing of ladies or artificial flies, were not yet.

1891 Daily News 27 July 2/1 Even Lady Harberton could scarcely disapprove of the gored skirt with no tie-backs.

1927 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 35/3 Flat festoons of green used for tie-backs on the curtains.

1961 Times 14 Jan. 9/7 Brass tie-backs in various shapes for holding the drawn but voluminous folds of the mid-Victorian drawing room curtains became a period ‘must’.

1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 148/1 Sloane windows need curtains with a capital C: with pelmets, twiddly bits, bands, tassels, tie-backs, edging.

1952 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Aug. 1/5 $1 tiedown fees for [flying] saucers less than 1,000 feet in diameter.

1955 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Feb. 2/4 Exhaustive ‘tie-down’ ground tests are scheduled for the XV-3..before actual flight tests begin.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 525/1 Tie-down, a ring, hook, stake, or the like to which something is secured; a tie-down fitting.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 418/1 Forklift entries and tie-down inserts are provided.

1971 Flying Apr. 13/1 Big tie-down areas for smaller airplanes.

1974 Union (S. Carolina) Daily Times 22 Apr. 7/7 (advt.) Mobile homes anchored: Storm tie-downs to guard you against wind damage.

1978 F. Mullally Deadly Payoff xii. 171 He let the loosened end of the tie-down rope fall to the ground and kicked the chocks away from the front wheels.

1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Oct. 8 Another 30 residences..have planes with tie-downs instead of hangars.

1910 Times 4 July 6/5 Tie-on labels should not be used.

1949 S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalmol. IV. xlv. 3917 For older children who can be trusted not to peep round it, a simple occluder of metal..or rubber..may be attached to the spectacles... These should be replaced by strapping on a tie-on occluder during the night.

1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 80 Tie-on cushions for dining chairs.

1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xii. 161 My skin became brown..between my tie-on tops and my hipsters.

1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 91 The reverberatory furnace..consists externally of an oblong casing of iron plates, firmly bound together by iron tie-bars.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 125 A tie-beam is a piece of timber, connecting the feet of the principal rafters, in order to prevent them from spreading.

1832 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 2) vii. 385 A very slender tie-beam is sufficient to withstand these horizontal thrusts, as in the roofs of buildings.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 436 The open roof and tyebeams of a Roman Basilica.

1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour xii. 227/1 A tie belt, without stiffening, becomes a string in no time.

1977 Daily Mirror 16 Mar. 16/2 (advt.) The tie-belt style is 12–18.

1976 Woman's Weekly 6 Nov. 4/2 Tunic top is hip-length, tie-belted and tie-necked.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 126/1 Placing the tie~bolts diagonally, instead of horizontally.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. xv. 242 Grooved and tongued together at their edges and nailed to the cants, being also tie-bolted where necessary.

1907 C. C. Brown China in Legend & Story xvii. 240 A queue, scarce big enough to carry its black tie-cord.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 July 8/7 (advt.) Marvelous tie-dye patterns, glorious color-blendings are amazingly simple to make.

1951 A. N. Gulati Patolu of Gujarat 18 The first essential step, therefore, is to tie-dye both warp and weft in conformity with the proposed design in the fabric.

1956 J. Irwin in Textiles & Ornaments India 29 The so-called ikat-technique is another kind of tie-dye.

1970 Time 20 Apr. 72 The stars fussed with their see-through dresses, tie-dyes and black ties and then paraded up a red-carpeted walkway.

1971 New Yorker 4 Sept. 61 What the boys who tie-dye and the grandmothers who rug-hook are doing is, in effect, as mechanical as anything done by a machine.

1975 Advocate-News (Barbados) 28 June 1/7 Organza flowers, soft toys, tie-dye and other craft work will be displayed by the YWCA craft group.

1977 Guardian 10 Jan. 8/1 The pallid youth in the tie-die shirt with a sewn-on picture of Marx.

1903 G. Watt Indian Art at Delhi vii. xxxi. 255 From Chamba State has been received..a most remarkable..cotton fabric woven in alternate bands of cotton and gold thread, the cotton being tie-dyed so as to show large wavy formations.

1903 G. Watt Indian Art at Delhi vii. xxxi. 257 The beauty of these warp and weft tie-dyed textiles.

1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) vi. 236 Their countrymen wearing cowboy hats, blue jeans, tie-dyed T-shirts.

1903 G. Watt Indian Art at Delhi vii. xxxi. 252 The once famous Bandana handkerchiefs may be given as the best known example of tie-dyeing.

1939 G. Clark Archaeol. & Society iii. 63 The tunics of the notables, which were..coloured by the tie-dying method.

1970 Time 26 Jan. 40 The art is almost as old as India—where it is called bandhnu. It is as new as the boutiques that blossom along Sunset Strip and Madison Avenue—where it is called tie-dying.

1742 London Evening-post 3 Aug. That play'd the Tye Game the beginning of the Season.

1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports xxii. 347/2 In the first innings Woking gained 71 runs, Shiere then went in and got 71. Second innings, Woking 71; ditto, Shiere 71; it was consequently a tye-game, under circumstances unprecedented in the annals of cricket-playing.

1928 Collier's 29 Dec. 17/4 A tie game in football is certainly more thrilling..than a one-sided game.

1960 Washington Post 18 Oct. a18/1 It was Eddie Erdelatz, the Navy football coach, who once described a tie game as an unsatisfactory experience that permitted no enthusiasm. ‘A tie game is like kissing your sister,’ he said.

1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein i. iii. 64 The tie-knot here Is off—this hair must not hang so dishevelled.

1864 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 3/3 Third Kent (Lee) v. Eighth Kent (Sydenham).—These two corps fired for a tie match.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 3/3 In case of ties..the prizes are to be divided, except the first prize, which must be determined by a tie match of four games.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 54 Tie neck.

1983 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 24/5 The Queen's outfit was a navy-and-white jacket and dress with..a tie neck.

1973 Country Life 22 Feb. 490/3 A tie-necked silk shirt.

1977 Harpers & Queen Sept. 44/1 A tie-necked champagne blouse in washable crepe.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. iii. 3 Three Tye-Perriwigs and a Piece of Broad Cloth.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 97 An old Scotch lawyer, in a tye periwig.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. xx. 332 The deck fastenings are not so efficient in iron as in wood beams, and hence both stringer and tie plates are of service in opposing the first tendency of the deck to elongate.

1861 Harper's Mag. Feb. 424/2 He alighted,..throwing the reins over a tie-post.

1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 328/2 Throwing the reins over a tie-post.

1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson 238 He'll never forget my kickin' him off'n th' tie-rail.

1970 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 9 Aug. 14/2 The stranger dismounted and hitched his horse to the tierails in front of the pub.

1896 R. Kipling Deep Sea Cables in Seven Seas 9 Here on the tie-ribs of earth Words..flicker and flutter and beat.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 191/2 Four iron tye-rods with washers placed transversely through the arch.

1910 J. Gunn Pract. Design Motor Cars ix. 230 The rod which transmits the motion of the steering gear to the front wheels should be connected at the front end..to the tie-rod.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Water closet..provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 640/1 In pressure piping, large forces are produced between connected parts. The pipes or parts are constrained by tie rods.

1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov. (advt.) Viva, 1969, white, taxed 11 months,..new balls and tie rods.

c1525 in Archaeologia 47 332 ij. roopes, called tye ropes, for the Henry Grace Dieu.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. iii. 35 The pens for sheep, the tie-ropes for horses.

1892 Daily News 20 Feb. 3/4 The Repair of Canterbury Cathedral... A series of tiestays are being inserted.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2567/2 Tie-strap,..a long strap having a buckle and chape on one end, used as an extra strap to a bridle for tying.

1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 737/2 An attendant snapped a tie strap into his halter and led him back to barn or paddock.

1897 Outing July 379/1 A rubber blanket..with tie-strings at the four corners, can be made into a first-rate shelter by tying two corners to poles driven into the ground, and the other corners to pegs.

1879 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Dec. (advt.) Tie-teeth at 6d per 1b.

1907 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Sept. 3/6 (advt.) Cocoanut Tie-teeth 6d.

1995 L. Goodison To us, all Flowers are Roses 21 The tie-teeth Is another kind Of sweet. Tangled and sweet Like some things Tempting But so tangled.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. iii. 427 The Negroes seem very fond of reduplications, to express a greater or less quantity of any thing; as..tie-tie, lilly-lilly, fum-fum.

1827 Hamel, Obeah Man II. 257 Stretching what they called a tie-tie of tent-ropes, hempen cordage, mahoe bark, and bush ropes, all spliced together, to form..a guide for those who could be induced to cross the bridge.

1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 17 The..occupants..standing erect, or perched on seats—cross sticks, secured by tie-tie on gunwale of canoe.

1931 Discovery May 153/1 The whole of the frame-work [of a Nigerian house] is secured with what is known in pidgin English as tie-tie which is fibre from certain plants.

1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart vii. 47 There were little holes..in the upper levels of the wall, and through these Okonkwo passed the rope, or tie-tie, to the boys and they passed it round the wooden stays and then back to him; and in this way the cover was strengthened on the wall.

1894 Daily News 6 Oct. 6/5 A proposal only lost a few years ago by a tie-vote.

1886 Jrnl. Indian Art 1 117 The wonderfully constructed patterns of Patolo weaving with ‘tie and die [sic]’ warp and woof..testify..to the skill achieved by Indian dyers and weavers.

1928 Daily Express 21 May 5/2 The ‘tie and dye’ process—an old craft which gives a charming hazed effect.

1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali i. vii. 196 The Balinese often decorate pieces of silk by the tie-and-dye process.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 7 July 9- b/7 Demonstrations in the hotel courtyard will include..silver casting, tie and dye, silk screening and oil painting.