Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction. · A drain.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cut grooves in tires. · To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.
From Old English sipian, related to seep. * around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 , : "Seo eorþe hit helt & be sumum dæle swilgþ, & for þam sype heo biþ geleht."
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- Cognate mentionsipianang
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