sipe

Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.

Noun

  1. Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. A drain.

Origin

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."

Forms

sipes

Verb

  1. To cut grooves in tires.
  2. To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Forms

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