sipe

See also: Sipe and šípe

English

Etymology

From Old English sipian, related to seep.

  • around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 ,
"Seo eore hit helt & be sumum dæle swil, & for am sype heo bi eleht."

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɪp/
  • Rhymes: -aɪp

Noun

sipe (plural sipes)

  1. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. (Britain, dialect) A drain.

Verb

sipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)

  1. (US) To cut grooves in tires.
  2. (intransitive, Britain) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sipe (Cyrillic spelling сипе)

  1. inflection of sipa:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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