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▪ I. syre, n. Sc. and north. dial.|saɪə(r)|
Forms: 6 scyoure, 7 syour(e, sayer, seyer, 7–9 sire, syer, 8– syre.
[Variant of syver.]
A gutter, drain, sewer.
1513Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 523 To cast ane scyoure on the est syd of the place. 1601Charter in Dallas Stiles (1697) 769 For..upholding of Sinks, Syers, Gutters, Eyes [etc.]. 1610Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 142/1 Lie airhoillis, staires, pottis, sinkis, syoures, lang-syouris, eyis, watter⁓gangis. 1643in Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1881) II. 55 To calsey betuixt ther owne lands and the sayer. c1680[F. Sempill] Banishm. Poverty 37 in Watson Coll. Scot. Poems (1706) I. 12 He and I lap o're many a Syre. a1823G. Beattie John o' Arnha, etc. (1826) 95 Let loathsome toads squat in a syre. 1894Northumb. Gloss., Sire, a sewer, a runner of water.
▪ II. syre, syreen, syren
see sire, sayer3, sireen, siren. |