Tirer le canon, Fr. To fire or discharge pieces of ordnance.
Tirer likewise means to move towards any place, viz. Après la battaille gagnee, l’armee tira vers un tel lieu; after the battle had been won, the army moved towards such a quarter.
Tirer dix ou douze pieds d’eau, Fr. To draw ten or twelve feet water.
Tirer à la mer, Fr. To put off to sea.
TIREUR, Fr. A game keeper, a shooter.
Tireur d’arc, Fr. A bowman, an archer.
Tireur d’armes, Fr. A fencing-master.
TYROLIANS. A body of sharp shooters in the Austrian service. They take their name from the Tyrol, a country formerly belonging to Germany, about 150 miles long, and 120 broad. It is wholly mountainous, and was part of the hereditary dominions of the house of Austria; but having been twice conquered by the French, part has been irrevocably ceded to Bavaria in 1809, the rest is incorporated with the kingdom of Italy.
TOCSIN, Fr. An alarm bell.
TOHIE, Ind. A canoe.