tyring

English

Verb

tyring

  1. present participle and gerund of tyre

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

tyring

  1. (falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.
    • 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
      Oꝛ ellis take peꝛcelli Rootis and ſeꝛue hiꝛ with theyem in the ſame maneꝛ, and when ſhe tyrith holde rew ī yowre honde with the tyring and that ſhall make hiꝛ voide, bot it is peꝛlous to vſe it often that the Juce fall neꝛ ſpꝛyug in to hiꝛ yghes.
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