tire chain

1. 1.

   chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow

   Synonymssnow chain

   Broaderchain

Questions about tire chain

What does tire chain mean?

tire chain means "chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow".

What is another word for tire chain?

Close synonyms include snow chain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tire chain a common word?

tire chain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.