Do we say teared or tiered

teared 1 occurrences

And all the time I teared with my eyes and moaned aloudly.

tiered 6 occurrences

Look, if you will, upon the World of Souls, many-tiered and vast, stretching from day's end to day's end,a world of hunger and of anger, of toiling and of striving, of clamor and of triumph,a dim, upheaving mass, which from century to century wakes, and breathes, and sleeps again!

In front of a side wall tiered to the low ceiling with shelves bearing a sorry assortment of ranch supplies was the store counter.

A few yards below and partly screened by a clump of young spruce, the tiered logs of a cabin rose to meet its overhanging roof of dirt.

The light reflected from this sheet showed the dim outlines of a tiered amphitheater before which was a long table spread with strange-looking instruments, electrical machines and special apparatus for psychological experiments.

In this three-tiered universe, transmigration of souls was still the basic fact but methods of obtaining release were now much clearer.

Parallel in story, Lo, the stately pair, As late in grapple ranging, The foe between them there When four great hulls lay tiered, And the fiery tempest cleared, And your prizes twain appeared, Temeraire!

Do we say   teared   or  tiered