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Tine Meaning & Definition
Tine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tine?

[n] prong on a fork or pitchfork

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See Also | fork | pitchfork | prong

Tine In Webster's Dictionary

\Tine\, n. [See {Teen} affliction.] Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] ``Cruel winter's tine.'' --Spenser.
\Tine\, v. t. [See {Tind}.] To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See {Tind}. ``To tine the cloven wood.'' --Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. --Spenser.
\Tine\, v. i. [Cf. {Tine} distress, or {Tine} to kindle.] To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. --Spenser.
\Tine\, v. t. [AS. t?nan, from t?n an inclosure. See {Town}.] To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
\Tine\, n. [OE. tind, AS. tind; akin to MHG. zint, Icel. tindr, Sw. tinne, and probably to G. zinne a pinnacle, OHG. zinna, and E. tooth. See {Tooth}.] A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

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