teerv.
/tɪə/ Now dialect and technical.
1.
a. transitive. To spread or cover with earth; to daub with clay, to construct (a wall, etc.) with clay or cob; to coat with plaster or the like, to plaster.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > plaster
teer1382
pargeta1398
plastera1400
tirea1400
spargetc1440
tarras1485
spargen1512
pargen1536
sparge1560
cast1577
through-cast1611
parge1637
emplaster1649
run1849
slur1885
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Amos vii. 7 Loo! the Lord stondynge on a wall teerid [v.rr. plastrid, pargeted; L. stans super murum litum], or morterd, and in the hond of hym a truel of masoun. [Cf. Ezek. xiii. 10 thei dawbeden, gloss or pargetiden, it [a wall] with fen with outen chaffis: L. liniebant eum luto absque paleis: French Bible, 1543, ilz le terroient de mortier sans paille.]
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 616/11 Terro, i. terram alicui supponere, to tere or daube.
1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 Also for ij lode lomb for teringe of þe chambre... Also for a lode lyme.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 489/2 Teryn, or hylle wythe erþe, terriculo.
1632 in Fraser's Mag. Oct. (1864) 518 Pd for tearing of the house & chimney, 8. o.
1742 in Graham Soc. Life Scotl. in 18th C. (1901) I. viii. 55 (note) For colouring and tearing the church doors and lettering them and colouring and tearing the wall opposite to your burial-place and lettering the same, 8 sh.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Teer, (3) to daub with clay. Hence a clay wall is sometimes called a teer-wall. Teere, to plaster between rafters. Lanc.
b. To plaster or spread thickly (butter, etc.).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance)
cleamc1000
smeara1400
spread?a1425
strike1525
splet1530
dab1592
stroke1594
sponge1607
daub1647
wipe1738
plaster1799
teerc1850
slather1866
cake1944
c1850 Northampt. Dial. You teer the butter all over the bread just as if it cost nothing.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Teer, to smear; daub; spread... ‘Teer the treacle’, i.e. spread it on bread.
2. Calico-printing. (See quot. 1839.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > print > processes involved in
teer1839
batch1876
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 226 The colour is teared [1875 teered].., or spread even, with a wooden scraper as broad as the canvass.
1899 R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster ix. 354 Teerer, a boy or girl employed to teer..the colour-sieve stretched..on a frame at printworks.
Compounds
teer-boy n. (also tire-boy) in calico-printing, a boy whose work was to spread a fresh surface of colour on the printer's ‘pad’ each time he used it.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > calico printing > one who > one who teers
teer-boy1780
teerer1839
teering-boy1847
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 36 Twelve printers. Twelve tire boys. Three print cutters.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 54/2 Tear-boys were very common in Lancashire.
Derivatives
ˈteerer n. (see quots.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > calico printing > one who > one who teers
teer-boy1780
teerer1839
teering-boy1847
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 226 The instant before the printer daubs the block upon the canvass, the tearer [1875 teerer], boy or girl, runs the scraper across it to renew its surface.
1895 Oracle Encycl. I. 585/2 For each [calico-] printer an attendant or ‘teerer’ was required—a boy whose duty was to spread evenly the colour on a prepared smooth cloth surface, on to which the printer dipped his block.
ˈteering n. (from sense 1) daubing or plastering with clay or cob; also, plastering or daubing generally.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > with specific substance
pargeting1396
teering1426
parging1502
mortaring1559
roughcasting1565
1426-7 [see sense 1a]. 1632 [see sense 1a].
ˈteering adj. that ‘teers’; esp. in teering-boy.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > calico printing > one who > one who teers
teer-boy1780
teerer1839
teering-boy1847
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Tiring-boy, one who stirs the colour about in printing cloth, &c. Lanc.
ˈteery adj. dialect sticky, smeary.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]
thickc888
toughc1000
cleavingc1350
gluey1382
gluish1382
gleiming1387
gummya1398
clammy1398
gleimy1398
viscosec1400
viscousc1400
emplastic?a1425
plastery?c1425
stiffc1430
clamc1440
engleimous?c1475
rawky1509
rich1535
clammish1543
limy1552
strong1560
glutinous1576
cloggy1587
emplastical1590
viscuous1603
plasterish1610
slaba1616
bound1635
viscid1635
lentous1646
spiscious1655
melleous1656
salivarious1656
glutining1658
syrupical1659
glairy1662
gummous1669
gummose1678
mellaginous1681
melligineous1684
pargety1684
sticky1688
sizy1691
dauby1697
syrupy1707
treacly?1734
glaireous1755
flabbyc1780
spissid1782
stodgy1823
waxy1835
teery1848
treacle-like1871
viscoid1877
slauming1904
gooey1906
gloopy1929
gunky1937
gungy1962
yucky1975
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 96 Teary, pron. Teery, sticky. ‘Handling the sugar will make your hands teary’... ‘The ground's so very “teary” after the frost’, i.e. heavy and clogging.
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