Tine

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
3. Trouble; distress; teen.
   obsolete
4. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
5. A wild vetch or tare.
   dialectal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

““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:[…]”

““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.”

“As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine”

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