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Tirving, Tirring, vbl. n. Also: tirveing, tyrving, tirwinge, tyrr(e)ing, tiring, tirling, turring, terring. [Tirve v.] The action of the verb Tirve in senses 1-3. b. Material removed from a roof in the process of stripping it.(1) a1550 Goldin Latany 129.
The panfull tirving of the purpour claith that wes revin fra thi fair body 1606 Reg. Privy C. VII 281.
Thair tirveing of the said Johnne Roy, and thairefter leisching him with … beltis 1607 Reg. Privy C. VII 345.
Tirveing of the said complenair of his haill clothing 1648 Justiciary Cases III 783.
Allegit tirring him and strypeing him naikit of his haill cleithing(2) 1502–3 Treasurer's Accounts II 362.
For tyrving of the loft 1535–6 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 189.
For tyrving and doun taking of the auld leid of the quenis chalmeris 1561–2 Edinb. Old Acc. II 153.
Tirwinge 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 578.
Tiruing(b) 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II 364.
To Thomas Barnat, sklater, for tyrring and theikin of the masoun luge 1610–11 Ayr B. Acc. 249.
[For] tirring [the ruinous part of the kirk] 1613 Inverness Rec. II 119.
That na person … brew ail to sel in the grieschip vnder the pain of tirring of thair houssis and casting doun of the sam 1616 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 5.
To David Andersoun sklaiter for tiring of ane chalmer 1616 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 17.
To Johnne Sutherland for tirring at the chancellaris hous 1616 Criminal Trials III 432.
In cuming … to Johnne Meldrum … his duelling hous … and thair be way of hamesucken clymming the walls thairof, tirring the ruif of the chalmer quhair he lay bedfast 1635 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 18 June.
Tyrreing of his byre in tyme of the gret storme quhairby he was forcit to theyk the same with turves c1650 Spalding I 83.
The queir … suffering so muche rayne sen the tirring thairof(c) 1706 Coll. Witchcraft 163.
All acts of hostility, as killing, burning, tirling, and deforcing of women(d) 1599 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 318.
For the turring and theiking new of ane pairt of Sir Thomas Erskines chalmer 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 43.
To the sklaitter for thecking the hall … To William Stobo and his sone … for turring the hallattrib. 1696 Kirkcudbr. Stewartry Ct. Rec.
[£12 Scots for ilk ruid of sclaites worked and put on the said kirk, 20/- Scots for each 100 slates used, and 6/- for the] terring maill [of ilk hundred thereof](3) 1594 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 57.
For the wrangus tirring and casting of duvettis upon … the lairdis landis 1661 Aberd. Council Lett. IV 183.
To raise lawburrowes against Alexander Lumsden for tirring of the inches 1662 Donaldson Cramondiana 86.
For tiring off their freinds and bairnes graivis be avay taking of their lair stones 1707 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. 231.
His cow abusing and tirring of the gravesb. 1639 Falkirk Baron Ct. 12 Feb.
For carrying of feall and devattis to the saidis housis for theiking thairof and for carrying of the reade and tirring thairfra quhen the samyn housis is tirrit