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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A branch of a deer's antlers.
  2. n. A prong on an implement such as a fork or pitchfork.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To close.
  2. To shut in; inclose, as with a hedge; hence, to make or repair for inclosure, as a hedge.
  3. To lose.
  4. To destroy.
  5. To be lost; hence, to be destroyed; perish.
  6. n. A wild vetch or tare, as Vicia hirsuta, which clasps other plants with its tendrils. Tine-grass, tine-tare, and tine-weed are applied to the same or similar plants.
  7. A dialectal form of teen.
  8. n. A dialectal form of teen.
  9. An obsolete form of tiny.
  10. Same as tind.
  11. n. One of a set of two or more pointed projecting prongs or spikes; specifically, a slender projection adapted for thrusting or piercing, as one of those of a fork of any kind, or of a deer's antler: locally used also of projections more properly called teeth, as of a harrow. See cuts under antler, palmate, 1, and Rusa.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb
  2. n. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Trouble; distress; teen.
  2. v. obsolete To kindle; to set on fire.
  3. v. obsolete To kindle; to rage; to smart.
  4. v. Prov. Eng. To shut in, or inclose.
  5. n. A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler

Etymologies

  1. Old English tind. Cognate with German Zinne. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English tind. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “His tallest tine is 10.5 inches and his left main beam is slightly palmated.”

    Well, I finally got my first bow deer. And man he was a whopper!

  • “The bottom right deer's rack's right side is not tangled at all, and the left side only has a single tine from the other deer in between two of his tines.”

    Year of the Lockup

  • “The bottom tine is "accountability," a word Karen Murton uses so frequently it deserves a ceremonial flag of its own, and she considers herself as accountable for her performance as anyone else.”

    Lessons Learned: How Good Schools Become Great

  • “The treaty, perhaps better known as the Pact of Paris, is at least a gesture toward a forward step in tine direction of peace among nations.”

    Peace Among the Nations

  • “Who would have suggested that in tine of peace we can sing "God Save the King" and boast of our British citizenship and send our trade across the seas under the protection of the British navy and do nothing in time of war?”

    Imperial Reorganization

  • “He affirmed that he had performed a magical ceremony, termed tine egan, by which he evoked a fiend, from whom he extorted a confession that Conachar, now called Eachin, or Hector, MacIan, was the only man in the approaching combat between the two hostile clans who should come off without blood or blemish.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth

  • “He affirmed that he had performed a magical ceremony, termed tine egan, by which he evoked a fiend, from whom he extorted a confession that”

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day

  • “Keep learning English, in "tine" you might sound as though you aren't here to clean houses.”

    "And I must say, your English has gotten so good."

  • “But like somefeller pointed out, making the statement that because she has an accent "Keep learning English, in "tine" you might sound as though you aren't here to clean houses" speaks for itself.”

    "And I must say, your English has gotten so good."

  • “Rosett reported that according to consultant and former journalist Youssef Ibrahim, Gadhafi "has used the 'tine' suffix before, attaching it as a dismissive insult to various other words ( 'socialism-tine,' 'capitalism-tine').”

    The Wall Street Journal: All the 'Nuance' That's Fit to Print

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. trouble
  1. distress
  1. teen
  1. kindle
  1. rage
  1. smart

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. prong

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. prongs
  1. skate
  1. prong

rhymes (78)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Aline
  2. Cline
  3. Combine
  4. Dine
  5. Heine
  6. Jain
  7. Klein
  8. Kline
  9. Quine
  10. Rhine
  11. Stein
  12. Strine
  13. Tyne
  14. affine
  15. align
  1. aline
  2. assign
  3. benign
  4. brine
  5. cline
  6. combine
  7. confine
  8. consign
  9. decline
  10. define
  11. design
  12. dine
  13. disincline
  14. divine
  15. ein
  1. enshrine
  2. entwine
  3. fein
  4. fine
  5. gyn
  6. hine
  7. incline
  8. intertwine
  9. line
  10. lyne
  11. malign
  12. mine
  13. nine
  14. opine
  15. pine
  1. prine
  2. pyne
  3. quine
  4. realign
  5. reassign
  6. recline
  7. recombine
  8. redefine
  9. redesign
  10. refine
  11. resign
  12. rhein
  13. rhyne
  14. rine
  15. sein
  1. shine
  2. shrine
  3. shyne
  4. sign
  5. sine
  6. spine
  7. stein
  8. stine
  9. supine
  10. swine
  11. thein
  12. thine
  13. trine
  14. twine
  15. vine
  1. whine
  2. wine
  3. zine

reverse dictionary (26)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tine
  2. Tyne
  3. tine-grass
  4. tine-weed
  5. tint
  1. titter
  2. tine-tare
  3. long
  4. grain
  5. tritocere
  1. punctulation
  2. subelaphine
  3. bay-antler
  4. fish-prong
  5. fish-spear
  1. crown antler
  2. branch
  3. for the present
  4. prong
  5. tres-tine
  1. antler
  2. brow-antler
  3. knag
  4. rusa
  5. snag
  1. thoria

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