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English
Adjective
tyable (comparative more tyable, superlative most tyable)
- Alternative form of tieable
1864, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 341:[…] tying intricate knots in every portion of them that was tyable; […]
- 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, The Soviet Union: Internal Dynamics of Foreign Policy, Present and Future: Hearings... (page 246)
- The idea is that you can tie down Gulliver with a thousand threads. But I don't think the Soviet Gulliver is quite so tyable and these threads don't strike me as being able to hold.