Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A prong, or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
  • To set on fire; kindle; light; inflame.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To kindle.

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  • verb obsolete To ignite, kindle.
  • noun A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
  • noun UK, dialectal, Scotland A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.

Etymologies

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From earlier tend, from Middle English tenden, teenden, from Old English tendan ("to kindle") (usually attested in compounds); related to Danish tænde, German zünden. More at tend.

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From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind ("tine, prong, tooth"), from Proto-Germanic *tenduz, *tendaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne ("battlement"), German Zinne ("pinnacle, battlement"), Danish tinde ("pinnacle, battlement"), Swedish tinne ("tooth of a rake"), Icelandic tindur ("spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement"). Related also to Dutch tand ("tooth, tine"), English tooth.

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Examples

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  • Purr-tind I doan trust U, Dan, n tellz me haow U noez dis raveelin pees uv info…

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  • Eu tind, pe baza experienţei mele personale, să fie de acord cu vechi

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  • America şi alte state occidentale tind spre pluralism şi naturalismul.

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  • Many maisters, quoth the Poddock to the Harrow, when every tind took her a knock.

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  • "'Sure an' he nades a wife to tind to the chickens an 'the pigs an' the turkeys -- the contrary little bastes that'll niver be stayin 'at home, at all at all.'"

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • I'd been workin 'at me trade, sor -- larnin' to tind bar it was -- and I'd just got a new job where the pay was pretty good, and I'd sint over for Maggie, and was plannin 'for the little flat we was to have, and the like of that, when I drew that prize.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "Shure, she'd 'tind to thot; wanst a Cat licks her futs, shure she's at home."

    Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Well, but I must answer oor rettle, ung oomens: not yet; 'tis rate now, and I can't tind it.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • The dreary waste of bared earth, thatched sheds and standing water, was a paradise to him; and when we walked up planks to deserted mixing and crushing mills, and actually saw where the clay was stirred with long iron prongs, and chalk or lime ground with "a tind of a mill," his expression of contentment and triumphant heroism knew no limit to its beauty.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

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