Definitions for Tine

Tine tine

Spelling: [tahyn]
IPA: /taɪn/

Tine is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Tine (eint).

Definitions for Tine

noun

  1. a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.

Origin of Tine

before 900; late Middle English tyne, Middle English tind, Old English; cognate with Old High German zint, Old Norse tindr

Examples for Tine

"I see you have a tine with you," said Mr. Mack, looking at the tine I carried.

The family Nepticulid—the last of the tine—contains a number of little moths, including the smallest of the Lepidoptera.

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.

Adaman′tine Spar, a name of the mineral corundum or of a brownish variety of it.

Asbes′tic, Asbes′tous, Asbes′tine, of or like asbestos: incombustible.

About half a dozen species of the tine will also have made their appearance before the end of the month.

Archibald Douglas, so called because so many of his enterprises ended in tine (or “distress”).

If I were made of iron, at this tine I could write no more.'

To "tine a darg," is to lose a day's work: you have arrived too late.

It would be better to sit down quietly and look upward to tine sky.

Word Value for Tine
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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