tiring-ironsn.

/ˈtʌɪərɪŋˌʌɪənz/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s tyring-, tarrying-, 1700s tarring-.

Etymology: In its current form, < tiring , present participle of tire v.¹ + iron n.¹; but tarrying-iron (also tarriour ) appears to occur as early, and to have been the more prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries This belongs to tarry v., in its transitive sense ‘to delay, retard, protract, prolong, hold in check’ (if not to tarry , tary v.). The evidence does not decide whether tiring or tarrying was the original epithet, and as both are descriptive, they may have been independent.

In plural with plural agreement. A popular name of the puzzling rings or ring-puzzle (esp. when made of iron, and of large size), in which a number of rings, usually seven or ten, are placed on an oblong closed wire loop or bow, each being also fastened to a wire within the bow, which passes through the next ring, and is loosely attached by its other end to a thin flat piece of metal or bone of nearly the same length as the loop. The puzzle is to take all the rings thus fettered off the loop or bow.‘This perplexing invention is of great antiquity, and was treated on by Cardan, the mathematician [1501–1576]’ ( Boy's Own Book (1828) 420, in which there is a figure and detailed explanation of the moves).

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1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel To Rdr. sig. *7 The very frame itselfe of their whole proceeding resembleth fitlie a paire of tarriours, or tyring yrons.

1627 M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 216 A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at.

a1675 J. Lightfoot Wks. (1684) II. 1246 They are not unriddleable riddles, and tyring-irons never to be untied.

1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication i. xvi. 4 Like a Boy with a pair of Tarrying-Irons.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 277 He would lay his tarrying-irons upon him, and not permit him to go away.

a1762 Lady M. W. Montagu Upon Riddles in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 63 Have you not known a small machine Which brazen rings environ, In many a country chimney seen, Y-clep'd a tarring-iron?

1828 Boy's Own Bk. 420 It may be purchased at most of the toy-shops, very lightly and elegantly made. It also exists in various parts of the country, forged in iron,..and aptly named ‘The Tiring Irons’.

1879 L. Potter Lancs. Mem. 115 One was called ‘tiring-irons’, a set of iron rings and two iron bars fastened together.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tiring-irons
释义	tiring-ironsn. /ˈtʌɪərɪŋˌʌɪənz/ Forms: Also 1600s–1700s tyring-, tarrying-, 1700s tarring-. Etymology: In its current form, < tiring , present participle of tire v.¹ + iron n.¹; but tarrying-iron (also tarriour ) appears to occur as early, and to have been the more prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries This belongs to tarry v., in its transitive sense ‘to delay, retard, protract, prolong, hold in check’ (if not to tarry , tary v.). The evidence does not decide whether tiring or tarrying was the original epithet, and as both are descriptive, they may have been independent. In plural with plural agreement. A popular name of the puzzling rings or ring-puzzle (esp. when made of iron, and of large size), in which a number of rings, usually seven or ten, are placed on an oblong closed wire loop or bow, each being also fastened to a wire within the bow, which passes through the next ring, and is loosely attached by its other end to a thin flat piece of metal or bone of nearly the same length as the loop. The puzzle is to take all the rings thus fettered off the loop or bow.‘This perplexing invention is of great antiquity, and was treated on by Cardan, the mathematician [1501–1576]’ ( Boy's Own Book (1828) 420, in which there is a figure and detailed explanation of the moves). ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > ring or wire puzzle tarrier1601 tiring-irons1601 wire puzzle1898 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel To Rdr. sig. 7 The very frame itselfe of their whole proceeding resembleth fitlie a paire of tarriours, or tyring yrons. 1627 M. Drayton Elegies* in Battaile Agincourt 216 A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at. a1675 J. Lightfoot Wks. (1684) II. 1246 They are not unriddleable riddles, and tyring-irons never to be untied. 1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication i. xvi. 4 Like a Boy with a pair of Tarrying-Irons. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 277 He would lay his tarrying-irons upon him, and not permit him to go away. a1762 Lady M. W. Montagu Upon Riddles in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 63 Have you not known a small machine Which brazen rings environ, In many a country chimney seen, Y-clep'd a tarring-iron? 1828 Boy's Own Bk. 420 It may be purchased at most of the toy-shops, very lightly and elegantly made. It also exists in various parts of the country, forged in iron,..and aptly named ‘The Tiring Irons’. 1879 L. Potter Lancs. Mem. 115 One was called ‘tiring-irons’, a set of iron rings and two iron bars fastened together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601
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