tirrv.

Brit.

/təː/, U.S.

/tər/, Scottish English

/tɪr/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s tyr, tyrr, 1500s–1800s tir, 1600s tirre, 1800s terr.

Etymology: apparently a reduced form of tirve v.¹ in same sense (see quot. 1533 at sense b), and compare Scots ser' for serve, turris for turves.

Scottish and northern dialect.

1. transitive. To strip or tear off (a covering, esp. the thatch, slates, or roofing of a house).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip off (a covering)

shredc1000

tirvec1300

to turn offc1390

stripc1430

tirr1584

tirl1603

skin1659

1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 681 [He] tirrit and reft doun the faill and thak of his barnis.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 219 Ane commandement gevin..to tir and tak doun all the tymmer werk of all houssis in Leith Wynd and Sanctmarie Wynd.

?1635 in D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) (modernized text) 83 He shall tirr the visorne off your faces.

c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 33 [The thunderclap] tirred the sclattes off it.

1777 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 97 There is no mending of the slating without tirring the sclates.

a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 337 Mony a fierce storm had tirred the thack.

a. To strip (a person) naked; to uncover, unroof (a house, etc.). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person

to dight nakedc1200

stripa1225

unclothec1300

nakea1350

despoilc1386

spoilc1386

spoila1400

uncleada1400

undighta1400

unarray14..

disarrayc1425

disattire?1473

unray1485

uncover1530

tirr1553

disclothe1570

disvesture1570

uncoat1571

uncase1576

unapparel1577

disrobe1590

unrig1591

unbusk1596

unstrip1596

untire1597

devest1598

unparel1603

unshale1604

unvest1609

disapparel1610

flaya1616

undress1615

disinvest1619

disvest1627

despoil1632

blanch1675

unpack1765

ungarment1805

peel1820

divest1848

divesture1854

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > damage deliberately or vandalize > gut or remove things from a building, etc.

unripa1513

tirr1553

discover1563

unfloor1589

unpinion1593

unbottom1598

unbrick1598

unpave1598

unroof1598

unslate1598

untop1598

flay1636

unplank1646

gut1688

unmantle1828

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ix. viii. 78 In quhat land lyis thou manglit and schent, Thy fare body and membris tyrryt [(ed. Small) tyrvit] and rent?

1578–9 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 83 Als meikle to say ‘Tyr the kirk and theik the queir’.

1590 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 492 Eftir thay wer tirrit to thair sarkis.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 307 The laird of Collingtonis hous in Forrestaris Wynd wes half tirrit.

1644 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. VIII. 101 They causit thair officers and hangman tirre us mother naked.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 70 Quhilk the said James espying, fallis to shortlie and tirris the houss.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 407 Thir cruell Irishis, seing a man weill cled, wold first tyr him and saif the clothis onspoyllit, syne kill the man.

1763 in Lauder & Lauderd. (1902) 86 The west side of the Manse must be tirred and sclated anew.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Tir one to the skin, i.e. strip him naked.

1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick (1900) xi. 153 A man..that cares na wha be tirred gin he be theekit.

1901 Dundee Advertiser 11 Feb. 6 In a minute or two the whole of the north side of the roof was completely tirred.

b. intransitive (for reflexive). To take off one's clothes; to strip, undress.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (intransitive)]

stripa1225

unbusk1596

uncase1598

disapparela1605

undressa1625

disarray1678

unrig1693

disrobe1716

peel1785

tirr1787

unattire1791

shuck1848

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (reflexive)]

stripa1225

spoila1382

unclothea1382

despoil1388

spoila1395

undighta1400

uncase1576

disrobe1581

unreadya1586

untire1597

devest1598

discasea1616

undressa1616

disvest1627

doff1697

tirr1787

unray1825

divest1848

undrape1869

unrind1872

shuck1897

1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 67 Hame I gaed..An' than I tirr'd, an' to my bed.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tirr,..To undress, to pull off one's clothes.

1891 A. Matthews Poems & Songs 52 I quickly tirr'd doon to the sark.

3. transitive. To bare (land) of its surface covering; to pare off (the turf or surface soil) from land; to lay bare (the stone in a quarry) by removing the superincumbent soil and clay. With the thing laid bare, or the covering, as object. Also absol.

ΚΠ

c1567 Survey Shilbottle in New County Hist. Northumbld. (1899) V. 425 The ground also, by reason of castyng so great numbre of turves, [is] so tyrred and maide baire, that of a greate parte therof groweth no grasse.

1593 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 85 The saidis Inchis ar sa flayne and tirrit, that..thair is na faill to be had thairin.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tirr,..to pare off the sward by means of a spade..before casting peats.

1867 D. D. Black Hist. Brechin (ed. 2) ii. 18 The earth was tirred from the garden on the top of the bank.

1899 J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming Desultory Notes on Jamieson 169 Tirr,..to remove the soil and sub-soil from above a bed of sand~stone in a quarry.

Derivatives

tirr n. the soil or sub-soil removed from the bed of a quarry (Montgomerie-Fleming Notes on Jamieson, 1899).

ΚΠ

1902 Daily Record (Glasgow) 11 Sept. 3 A couple of men had agreed to do some quarry tirring... The tirr suddenly collapsed and a man..was killed.

ˈtirring n. the stripping off of the incumbent soil, etc.

ΚΠ

1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 201 These quarries require very little tirring.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tirr
释义	tirrv. Brit. /təː/, U.S. /tər/, Scottish English /tɪr/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s tyr, tyrr, 1500s–1800s tir, 1600s tirre, 1800s terr. Etymology: apparently a reduced form of tirve v.¹ in same sense (see quot. 1533 at sense b), and compare Scots ser' for serve, turris for turves. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. transitive. To strip or tear off (a covering, esp. the thatch, slates, or roofing of a house). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip off (a covering) shredc1000 tirvec1300 to turn offc1390 stripc1430 tirr1584 tirl1603 skin1659 1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 681 [He] tirrit and reft doun the faill and thak of his barnis. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 219 Ane commandement gevin..to tir and tak doun all the tymmer werk of all houssis in Leith Wynd and Sanctmarie Wynd. ?1635 in D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) (modernized text) 83 He shall tirr the visorne off your faces. c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 33 [The thunderclap] tirred the sclattes off it. 1777 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 97 There is no mending of the slating without tirring the sclates. a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 337 Mony a fierce storm had tirred the thack. 2. a. To strip (a person) naked; to uncover, unroof (a house, etc.). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person to dight nakedc1200 stripa1225 unclothec1300 nakea1350 despoilc1386 spoilc1386 spoila1400 uncleada1400 undighta1400 unarray14.. disarrayc1425 disattire?1473 unray1485 uncover1530 tirr1553 disclothe1570 disvesture1570 uncoat1571 uncase1576 unapparel1577 disrobe1590 unrig1591 unbusk1596 unstrip1596 untire1597 devest1598 unparel1603 unshale1604 unvest1609 disapparel1610 flaya1616 undress1615 disinvest1619 disvest1627 despoil1632 blanch1675 unpack1765 ungarment1805 peel1820 divest1848 divesture1854 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > damage deliberately or vandalize > gut or remove things from a building, etc. unripa1513 tirr1553 discover1563 unfloor1589 unpinion1593 unbottom1598 unbrick1598 unpave1598 unroof1598 unslate1598 untop1598 flay1636 unplank1646 gut1688 unmantle1828 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ix. viii. 78 In quhat land lyis thou manglit and schent, Thy fare body and membris tyrryt [(ed. Small) tyrvit] and rent? 1578–9 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 83 Als meikle to say ‘Tyr the kirk and theik the queir’. 1590 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 492 Eftir thay wer tirrit to thair sarkis. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 307 The laird of Collingtonis hous in Forrestaris Wynd wes half tirrit. 1644 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. VIII. 101 They causit thair officers and hangman tirre us mother naked. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 70 Quhilk the said James espying, fallis to shortlie and tirris the houss. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 407 Thir cruell Irishis, seing a man weill cled, wold first tyr him and saif the clothis onspoyllit, syne kill the man. 1763 in Lauder & Lauderd. (1902) 86 The west side of the Manse must be tirred and sclated anew. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Tir one to the skin, i.e. strip him naked. 1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick (1900) xi. 153 A man..that cares na wha be tirred gin he be theekit. 1901 Dundee Advertiser 11 Feb. 6 In a minute or two the whole of the north side of the roof was completely tirred. b. intransitive (for reflexive). To take off one's clothes; to strip, undress. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (intransitive)] stripa1225 unbusk1596 uncase1598 disapparela1605 undressa1625 disarray1678 unrig1693 disrobe1716 peel1785 tirr1787 unattire1791 shuck1848 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (reflexive)] stripa1225 spoila1382 unclothea1382 despoil1388 spoila1395 undighta1400 uncase1576 disrobe1581 unreadya1586 untire1597 devest1598 discasea1616 undressa1616 disvest1627 doff1697 tirr1787 unray1825 divest1848 undrape1869 unrind1872 shuck1897 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 67 Hame I gaed..An' than I tirr'd, an' to my bed. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tirr,..To undress, to pull off one's clothes. 1891 A. Matthews Poems & Songs 52 I quickly tirr'd doon to the sark. 3. transitive. To bare (land) of its surface covering; to pare off (the turf or surface soil) from land; to lay bare (the stone in a quarry) by removing the superincumbent soil and clay. With the thing laid bare, or the covering, as object. Also absol. ΚΠ c1567 Survey Shilbottle in New County Hist. Northumbld. (1899) V. 425 The ground also, by reason of castyng so great numbre of turves, [is] so tyrred and maide baire, that of a greate parte therof groweth no grasse. 1593 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 85 The saidis Inchis ar sa flayne and tirrit, that..thair is na faill to be had thairin. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tirr,..to pare off the sward by means of a spade..before casting peats. 1867 D. D. Black Hist. Brechin (ed. 2) ii. 18 The earth was tirred from the garden on the top of the bank. 1899 J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming Desultory Notes on Jamieson 169 Tirr,..to remove the soil and sub-soil from above a bed of sand~stone in a quarry. Derivatives tirr n. the soil or sub-soil removed from the bed of a quarry (Montgomerie-Fleming Notes on Jamieson, 1899). ΚΠ 1902 Daily Record (Glasgow) 11 Sept. 3 A couple of men had agreed to do some quarry tirring... The tirr suddenly collapsed and a man..was killed. ˈtirring n. the stripping off of the incumbent soil, etc. ΚΠ 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 201 These quarries require very little tirring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1553
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