Tine Definition

tīn
tines
noun
A slender, projecting part that is pointed at the end; prong.
The tines of a fork.
Webster's New World
A branch of a deer's antlers.
American Heritage
A prong on an implement such as a fork or pitchfork.
American Heritage

(obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) Plural form of tinea.

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Synonyms:
verb

To kindle; to set on fire.

Wiktionary
To shut in, or enclose.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Tine

Noun

Singular:
tine
Plural:
tines

Origin of Tine

  • From Old English tȳnan, from tÅ«n (“enclosure") (modern town).

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English tind. Cognate with German Zinne.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English tind

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See teen (“affliction").

    From Wiktionary

  • See tind.

    From Wiktionary

Tine Sentence Examples

  • By spring some weeds are already too big for the tine weeder to tackle.

  • Until the reform of the comitia centuriata (probabl' during the censorship of Gaius Flaminius in 220 B.C.; *see Comitia),` the equites had voted first, but after that time this privilege was transferred to tine cenfury selected by lot from the centuries of ' the equites and the first class.

  • Wapiti, on the other hand, show a marked tendency to the flattening of the antlers, with a great development of the fourth tine, which is larger than all the others, and the whole of the tines above this in the same plane, or nearly so, this plane being the same as the long axis of the animal.

  • A new spring tine harrow specially designed for use on grassland is solving an age-old problem for dairy farmer Will Taylor.

  • I remember having tine off from work me Saturday morning to fit him out with a new uniform from the Shop.

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Words Starting With

TTITIN

Words Ending With

ENEINE

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tine

Words Starting With T and Ending With E

Starts With T & Ends With EStarts With TI & Ends With EStarts With T & Ends With NE

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With T4 Letter Words Ending With E