*tiraillement, n.m., plucking, pulling, hauling about; twitching, twinge, pain; (fig.) anxiety; jarring, jar, disagreement. — d’estomac; pain in the stomach, griping.
*tirailler, v.a., to pull, to haul about, to tug, to twitch; to tease, to plague, to bother, to pester.
*se tirailler, v.r., to pull one another about.
*tirailler, v.n., to shoot wildly; to bang away; (milit.) to skirmish.
*tiraillerie, n.f., (milit.) desultory, wild, aimless firing.
*tirailleur, n.m., (milit.) sharpshooter; skirmisher.
tirant, n.m., string (of purses); boot-strap; cramp, cramp-iron; (carp.) collar; iron bar, bolt, holdfast; (cook.) white leather; string of parchment; brace (of a drum); ship’s gauge, ship’s draught. — d’eau; (nav.) gauge, sea-gauge, ship’s draught.
tirasse, n.f., (hunt.) draw-net.
tirasser, v.a. and n., (hunt.) to catch with a draw-net; to set a draw-net.
tire, n.f., tug, pull; quick jerk of the wing. Tout d’une —; at a stretch. Voleur à la —; pickpocket. Vol à la —; pocket-picking.