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retyre en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹiːˈtaɪə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɹiˈtaɪɹ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From re- + tyre.

Meanings

1. (UK, transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tyres.
   • Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point. 2013, Alan Davies, Walkden Yard and the Lancashire Central Railways Colliery Locomotives:

Forms

retyre en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

Meanings

1. (obsolete) retirement
   • Now surely , Syre , I find, That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire, Be but vaine shadows to this safe retyre 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

retyre en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɹɪˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of retire (“to withdraw”).
   alt of retire

Forms