TINE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.

2.
v.

To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.

3.
v.

To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

4.
v.

To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

5.
n.

A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

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