Definitions for "Tyger"
(200 tuns), under the command of Captain Christopher Carleill; not the Tyger of 1585.
The Tyger was the ship used by Dutch captain Adriaen Block during his 1613 to 1614 voyage to explore the East Coast of North America and the present day Hudson River.
A tiger.
In the eighteenth century tigers epitomized bloodthirstiness.