teer

teer (third-person singular simple present teers, present participle teering, simple past and past participle teered)

1. (transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.

• reet, rete, tree

• Rhymes: -eːr

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teer m or n (uncountable)

1. tar

From Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz; cognate to Middle English teere.

teer m (uncountable)

1. tenderness

teer (comparative teerder, superlative teerst)

1. tender, delicate

teer

1. first-person singular present indicative of teren
2. imperative of teren

Over time, teer was also used to refer to tuberculosis, analogously to English consumption.

teer m (uncountable)

1. the act of digesting or being consumed
2. tuberculosis

From Middle Dutch tree, from Old Dutch *trio, *treo, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréu̯om, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Cognate with English tree, Danish træ.

teer m (plural teren, diminutive teertje n)

1. tree

• appelteer, elzenteer

• eert, eter, reet, tere, tree

teer

1. Imperative singular of teeren.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of teeren.

From Old English tēar.

teer

1. Alternative form of tere (“tear”)

From Old English teoru.

teer

1. Alternative form of ter (“tar”)

From Middle Dutch têer.

teer

1. Alternative form of teere (“good”)

From Old English teran.

teer

1. Alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)

teer

1. indefinite plural of te