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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To ooze; trickle; soak through or out.
  2. To steep; soak.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. n. UK (dialect) A drain.
  3. v. US To cut grooves in tires.
  4. v. intransitive (UK) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Scot. & U.S. See seep.

Etymologies

  1. From Old English sipian , related to seep. (Wiktionary)

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rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. gipe
  2. gripe
  1. hype
  2. lipe
  1. overripe
  2. pipe
  1. ripe
  2. snipe
  1. stipe
  2. stripe
  1. swipe
  2. tripe
  1. type
  2. wipe

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  • bilby There's a tyre ad on TV here at the moment where one of the experts refers to the tread markings as sipes. Nov 19, 2008

  • skipvia To increase a tire's traction on icy roads by making shallow slashes in the tread surface. Oct 19, 2007

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