Instrumental and parasynthetic, as steel-born, steel-bound, steel-clad, steel-girt, steel-graven, steel-lined, steel-shod; steel-barred, steel-bosomed…

having white walls; spec. (of a tyre) = whitewall, adj. 1.

That is or has been punctured; pricked, pierced; perforated; deflated. Of a tyre, bicycle, etc.: that has sustained a puncture. Also figurative.

The side of a vehicle's tyre, typically untreaded and often marked or coloured distinctively; (more fully sidewall tyre) a tyre with distinctive…

defining a kind of pneumatic tyre with bead or thickened edge that fits into the turned-over rim of the wheel.

of a tyre: having or furnished with a moulded tread.

Designating a vehicle tyre with a smaller diameter and greater width than is usual, often used with high-performance vehicles. Cf. high profile, adj.…

Of a tyre: having white sidewalls.

(a) adj. (attributive) designating a kind of vehicle tyre which is designed to be usable even after a puncture has occurred; (b) n. a tyre of this…

Chiefly U.S. (originally Military slang). Denoting a haircut in which the back and sides of the head are very closely cropped and the hair on top…

transferred. Without the usual or natural covering (in various senses). Of a tyre: having a worn tread. colloquial.

(a) adj. designating a tyre in which the layers of fabric are laid with the cords at an oblique angle to the circumference of the tyre; of or…

designating a tyre in which the layers of fabric are laid with the cords at right angles across one another; also elliptical as n.

Decorated or augmented with studs or similarly protruding objects.

having no tread or treads (esp. of tyres).