▪ 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.
| 1513 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 523 To cast ane scyoure on the est syd of the place. 1601 Charter in Dallas Stiles (1697) 769 For..upholding of Sinks, Syers, Gutters, Eyes [etc.]. 1610 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 142/1 Lie airhoillis, staires, pottis, sinkis, syoures, lang-syouris, eyis, watter⁓gangis. 1643 in Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1881) II. 55 To calsey betuixt ther owne lands and the sayer. c 1680 [F. Sempill] Banishm. Poverty 37 in Watson Coll. Scot. Poems (1706) I. 12 He and I lap o're many a Syre. a 1823 G. Beattie John o' Arnha, etc. (1826) 95 Let loathsome toads squat in a syre. 1894 Northumb. Gloss., Sire, a sewer, a runner of water. |
▪ II. syre, syreen, syren
see sire, sayer3, sireen, siren.