sipe

Meanings

Noun

• Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
• A drain.

Verb

• To cut grooves in tires.
• To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Origin

• 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."