Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tine

Tine , noun

[See Teen affliction.]

Trouble; distress; teen. [Obsolete]
Cruel winter's tine. — Spenser

Tine , transitive verb

[See Tind.]

To kindle; to set on fire. [Obsolete]
To tine the cloven wood. — Dryden
Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. — Spenser

Tine , intransitive verb

[Compare Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]

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

Tine , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon t{not transcribed}nan, from t{not transcribed}n an inclosure. See Town.]

To shut in, or inclose. [Provincial English] — Halliwell

Tine , noun

[Old English tind, Anglo-Saxon tind; akin to Middle High German zint, Icelandic tindr, Swedish tinne, and probably to German zinne a pinnacle, Old High German zinna, and English tooth. See Tooth.]

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