tine
noun
- spike on a tool or utensil
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Unknown, possibly related to etymology 1.
- small, diminutive
name
Etymology: Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Tinè, a surname predominantly found in Sicily. * An English surname, variant of Tyne. * An Americanized spelling of the German surname Thein.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: See teen (“affliction”).
- Trouble; distress; teen.
“As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine”
“And now has brave Sir Thynnè, Escaped all sorrow and tine; Now sleeps she sweet full many a sleep, On brave Sir Thynnè's arm.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English tynen, from Old English tȳnan, from tūn (“enclosure”) (modern town).
- To shut in, or enclose.
“When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]”
““Terrible trying,” said Oak. “I’ve been wet through twice a-day, either in snow or rain, this last fortnight. Cainy and I haven’t tined our eyes to-night.””