▪ I. ˈtining, vbl. n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. tine v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of tine v.1; enclosing, fencing, hedging; making or repairing of a hedge. b. concr. A hedge or fence, esp. a new one made from dead thorns. c. attrib., as tining-gloves, gloves worn in repairing hedges, hedging-gloves.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/2 Tynynge, drye hedge, sepes. 1522 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paied for tenyng of a hedge. 1546 in Boys Sandwich (1792) 80 Paid for tenyng and mendyng of gapps 10d. 1616 T. Adams End of Thorns Wks. 1862 II. 486 Men commonly deal with their sins as hedgers do when they go to plash thorn bushes; they put on tining gloves, that the thorns may not prick them. 1813 T. Davis Agric. Wilts Gloss., Tining, a new enclosure made with a dead hedge. 1894 Atkinson Old Whitby 53 He must do the ‘tyning’ or fencing-in with stoup or stake, and wattle or brush. |
▪ II. tining, vbl. n.2 Now only Sc. and north. dial.
[f. tine v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of losing, loss; † destruction. between the tining and the winning: said of being in a critical position, which may issue either in ruin or in success.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 18261 (Cott.) Ha! sathan..all þat þu wan..thoru þe tinning of paradis, Nu has þou tint on oþer wis. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints v. (Johannes) 212 Sa gret besynes He has for to get riches, And besy thocht of þe kepynge, And gret dut of þe tynynge. c 1400 Destr. Troy 7611 For the tene, þat hom tyde, & tynyng of pepull. c 1520 Nisbet N. Test. in Scots (S.T.S.) III. 283 (Ecclus. l. 4) The gret preest..that delyuirit thame fra tynyng. 1720 Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 146 A' the country is repining, And ilka ane complains of tining. 1825 Scott Diary 28 Dec., in Lockhart, At present he is between the tyning and the winning. |
▪ III. tining, vbl. n.3
(ˈtaɪnɪŋ)
[f. tine v.3 (or n.1) + -ing1.]
a. The action of tine v.3; harrowing. b. concr. (pl.) The tines or teeth of a harrow, etc. collectively.
| 1760 Washington Writ. (1889) II. 163 A new harrow made of smaller and closer tinings. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Tine, The common phrase, of giving two or three tinings, signifies to draw the harrows twice or thrice over the same spot of ground. |