[f. TIE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb TIE in various senses; fastening with a cord or string; connection, binding, etc. Also attrib.
1480. Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 123. For vj teyng haltres, price the pece xvj d.
1505. Sel. Cases Crt. Star Chamb. (Selden), 219. The kinges leege people … att ther plensur take ther tying in the seide streme and on ther land adioyning.
1651. Fuller’s Abel Rediv., Melancthon (1867), I. 279. It was a tying void of sense and reason, to yield a subscription unto … things which … he did neither know nor understand.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 89. I was still sore from the tyings and the bruises which I had received.
1809. Med. Jrnl., XXI. 424. When … ulceration takes place after the tying of an artery.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 16. Cow-house, with a tying-post and trough for food.
1906. Macm. Mag., April, 447. A March brown [angling fly] … of the popular local tying.
2. concr. Something used for tying; something that ties, binds, or connects; a tie. ? Obs.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke i. 27. By and by … was the tying of his tounge looced.
1608. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 652. A short stalk or tying, by which the Comb [in a wasps’ nest] … is fastened … to the earth, or some tree.
1844. N. Paterson, Manse Gard., 119. The paper may be kept in its place by pins, or a tying of twine.
Tying, vbl. sb.2: see TYE v.
