Also 6 tewe ireon, 7 teu iyron, 8 dial. tuiron, tuarn, 9 Sc. tö-airn. [Represents F. tuyère, through the form tewyre, yre being taken as the dial. yre, ire, IRON: see TUYERE.] See quots. 1825, 1888, and cf. TEWEL 3.
1570. Wills & Ind. N. C. (Surtees), I. 329. I do gyue vnto John Dycheborne a pair of bellowis wth a tewe Ireon.
c. 1670. in Beveridge, Culross & Tulliallan, xxi. (1885), II. 166. To be discharged of their worke by stryking out of thair teu iyron, and thair other workloums.
c. 1700. Kennett (MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 406). Four stones or walls, that next the bellows is called the Tuarn or Tuiron wall.
1825. Jamieson, To-airn (o pron. as Gr. υ), a piece of iron, with a perforation so wide as to admit the pipe of the smith’s bellows, built into the wall of his forge, to preserve the pipe from being consumed by the fire.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 42/1. 5 inches of the end nearest the tew iron were burnt completely away.
1888. Elworthy, W. Som. Wordbk., Tew-iron (tùe·uy·ur), the nozzle of a smith’s bellows, or of a smelting furnace…. Tew-irons are regular articles of iron-mongery.
