What does "tine" mean?
Tine: Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.
- 3.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.
- 4.To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
- 5.A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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