Definitions for: Tine

[n] prong on a fork or pitchfork

Webster (1913) Definition: Tine, n. [See Teen affliction.]
Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] ``Cruel winter's tine.''
--Spenser.

Tine, v. t. [See Tind.]
To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. ``To tine the
cloven wood.'' --Dryden.

Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. --Spenser.

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.

Tine, v. t. [AS. t?nan, from t?n an inclosure. See
Town.]
To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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.

See Also: fork, pitchfork, prong

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