Tine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tine	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Tine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tine n prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tine \Tine\, n. [See {Teen} affliction.] Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] [bd]Cruel winter's tine.[b8] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tine \Tine\, v. t. [See {Tind}.] To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See {Tind}. [bd]To tine the cloven wood.[b8] --Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tine \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tine \Tine\, v. t. [AS. t[?]nan, from t[?]n an inclosure. See {Town}.] To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.