Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tine \Tine\, v. t. [See Tind.]
To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the
cloven wood." --Dryden.
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Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tine \Tine\, v. i. [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]
To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.]
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Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine
That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tine \Tine\, v. t. [AS. t?nan, from t?n an inclosure. See
Town.]
To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tine \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tine \Tine\, n. [See Teen affliction.]
Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine."
--Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tine
n 1: prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler