Synonyms for tine
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tahyn |
| Phonetic Transcription : taɪn |
Définition of tine
Origin :- Old English tind, a general Germanic word (cf. Old High German zint "sharp point, spike," Old Norse tindr "tine, point, top, summit," German Zinne "pinnacle"), of unknown origin.
- noun point of fork
- To "tine a darg," is to lose a day's work: you have arrived too late.
- Extract from : « The Proverbs of Scotland » by Alexander Hislop
- If I were made of iron, at this tine I could write no more.'
- Extract from : « Meditations » by Marcus Aurelius
- "I see you have a tine with you," said Mr. Mack, looking at the tine I carried.
- Extract from : « What Happened to Inger Johanne » by Dikken Zwilgmeyer
- It would be better to sit down quietly and look upward to tine sky.
- Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A tine gallop of grass sward led to the pound, and over this I went, cheered with as merry a cry as ever stirred a light heart.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Adaman′tine Spar, a name of the mineral corundum or of a brownish variety of it.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 » by Various
- Asbes′tic, Asbes′tous, Asbes′tine, of or like asbestos: incombustible.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- Archibald Douglas, so called because so many of his enterprises ended in tine (or “distress”).
- Extract from : « Scott's Lady of the Lake » by Walter Scott
- The family Nepticulid—the last of the Tine—contains a number of little moths, including the smallest of the Lepidoptera.
- Extract from : « Butterflies and Moths » by William S. Furneaux
- About half a dozen species of the Tine will also have made their appearance before the end of the month.
- Extract from : « Butterflies and Moths » by William S. Furneaux
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