dial. and colloq. [From TIRE v.1]
1. Tiredness, fatigue.
1859. F. E. Paget, Curate of Cumberworth, 86. The settee which was adding discomfort to his tire.
1891. A. Matthews, Poems & Songs, 60. I clean forgot my tire and pain.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, MAndrews Hymn. Sick, sick, wi doubt an tire.
[1904. in Eng. Dial. Dict., from Scotld. to Devon.]
2. pl. Tires: see quot.
1855. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 12), Milk Sickness, Sick stomach, Swamp sickness, Tires, Slows . A disease occasionally observed in Alabama, Indiana, and Kentucky, which affects both man and cattle, but chiefly the latter . Owing to the tremors that characterize it in animals, it is called the Trembles.
1899. in Syd. Soc. Lex.