† ˈtine-worm Obs. rare.
Also 8 tin-.
An unidentified ‘worm’, said to be injurious to sheep; ? = taint-worm.
| 1587 L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1596) 15 Against the swelling in a beast by eating of a Tyne-worme. Ibid. 250 The tine worme is a small red worme with many legs, much like a hog lowse, and they will creepe in grasse: if sheepe or other cattell do eate one, they will swell and within a day die, if he be not remedied. 1704 Dict. Rust., Tinworm. |