tiers

Example Sentences

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I must buy some cotton and calico, and make some little clothes and tyers.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

And now, Rory, please, no more talk; you just untie the mainsail cover and undo the tyers, that’s your work, because you’re neat.”

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

They ate and drank, and she moved about tucking children's tyers and sweaters into holes of concealment and making her house fitting for Tira's majesty, all the time muttering her pleas to God.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

This difference might be less where expert tyers are employed, or very low rates per hundred bunches are paid.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F. M.

I wonder I ain't in tyers, makin' mud-pies.

From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice