Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪn/Category:English 1-syllable words#TINECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TINE

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• Rhymes: -aɪnCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪn#TINECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪn/1 syllable#TINE
• Homophone: TyneCategory:English terms with homophones#TINE

Noun

tine (plural tines)Category:English lemmas#TINECategory:English nouns#TINECategory:English countable nouns#TINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed:

     The tines of the fork were quite evidently of iron or steel, the girl did not know which, while the handle and the spoon were of the same material as the smaller vessels.

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   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 9, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, pages 45–46:

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

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2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     “I answer not the challenge of my prisoner,” said Front-de-Bœuf; “nor shalt thou, Maurice de Bracy.—Giles,” he continued, “hang the franklin’s glove upon the tine of yonder branched antlers: […]

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   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:

     “By my faith, sirs,” he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, “unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.

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3. (dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#TINE) A wild vetch or tare.

See also

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Alternative forms

• tyne

Adjective

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)Category:English lemmas#TINECategory:English adjectives#TINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. small, diminutive

Noun

tineCategory:English lemmas#TINECategory:English nouns#TINECategory:English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals#TINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TINE) Trouble; distress; teen.^[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

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   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 172:

     And now has brave Sir Thynnè,
     Escaped all sorrow and tine;
     Now sleeps she sweet full many a sleep,
     On brave Sir Thynnè's arm.

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Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)Category:English lemmas#TINECategory:English verbs#TINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TINE) To kindle; to set on fire.^[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

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   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds / Juſtling or puſht with Winds rude in thir ſhock / Tine the ſlant Lightning, […]

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   • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

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2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TINE) To rage; to smart.^[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

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Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)Category:English lemmas#TINECategory:English verbs#TINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#TINE) To shut in, or enclose.^[1]
   • 1852, Alfred the Great, translated by Alfred Committee, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388:

     When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]

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   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

     “Terrible trying,” said Oak. “I’ve been wet through twice a-day, either in snow or rain, this last fortnight. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to-night.”

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Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tinar/tiner, past tense tina/tinte, past participle tina/tint, passive infinitive tinastCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#TINE, present participle tinandeCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#TINE, imperative tine/tin)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk transitive verbs#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk intransitive verbs#TINE) to thaw

Noun

tine f (definite singular tina, indefinite plural tiner, definite plural tinene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINE

1. a traditional bentwood box

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tiner, past tense tinte, past participle tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#TINECategory:Pages with entries#TINECategory:Pages with 11 entries#TINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

1. to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
2. to remove the awn from the grain
3. to extract a nut from its shell

Related terms

• te (unstressed form)

See also

• mine
• sine