Lexicographical Neighbors of Tirring
Literary usage of Tirring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"The first step necessary in commencing drilling, after the tirring or stripping
has been accomplished, is to fix the position of the bore-hole for blasting ..."
2. History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by John M. Leighton, Joseph Swan, James Stewart (1840)
"Originally it was worked by tirring, but for the last 32 years it has been worked
by mining. The pillars are 6 feet thick, and 10 feet is excavated between ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"Sandstone is also in great abundance, and two or three quarries have been wrought
to a considerable extent, by tirring the surface only. ..."
4. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"Sandstone is also in great abundance, and two or three quarries have been wrought
to a considerable extent, by tirring the surface only. ..."
5. A Complete System of Conveyancing: Adapted to the Present Practice of by Juridical Society of Edinburgh (1907)
"... and also the quarry rubbish, and shall bank up such tirring and rubbish at
the said end of the quarry as it accumulates to the level of the adjoining ..."
6. The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Third Series by Norman Macpherson, Scotland Court of Session (1904)
"Then arrangements are made by which the company are to have power, by tirring or
removing the turf, to show that they intend to prohibit Sir Thomas ..."
7. The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the by John Sinclair (1795)
"... called tirring, •which is from jc to 30 feet; ... foon be compelled to it;
the workmen take tirring at 3d. the foir.ire yard; they put out the lime ..."
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