Thesaurus: tine

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1. n. Trouble; distress; teen.
2. v. t. To kindle; to set on fire.
3. v. i. To kindle; to rage; to smart.
4. v. t. To shut in, or inclose.
5. n. A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
6. n. prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
7. Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser. To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." Dryden. Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser. 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. To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
8. Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.
9. n:100 n. prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler