▪ I. bine
(baɪn)
Also 4–5 bynde, 8–9 bind.
[A dial. form of bind n., recently adopted as the literary form in the following senses.]
1. A flexible shoot of any shrub, a shoot of the year's growth; the flexible stem of a climbing plant.
| 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 186 When the crop is heavy, the lower parts of the bines [of vetches] will be less inviting than the upper part. 1880 Standard 12 Nov., The first frosts..shrivel the bines of white bryony. 1880 Jefferies Gr. Ferne F. 194 A trailing bine of honeysuckle. |
b. spec. The climbing stem of the hop.
| 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hop Gard., When you find the Binds very vigorous..you must forbear giving them any more Earth. a 1845 Hood Ode R. Wilson, What Kentish boor would tear away the prop So roughly as to wound, nay, kill the bine? 1864 Tennyson Aylmer's F. 112 When burr and bine were gather'd. 1884 G. Allen in Longm. Mag. V. 43 The ‘fly’..on hops, is an aphis specialized for that particular bine. |
c. Hence, used to name varieties of the Hop; e.g. white-bine (formerly -bind, corruptly -vine).
| 1732 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Lupulus, The grey Bind..is a large square Hop. 1835 Penny Mag. 453 The hop-plant..has several varieties, such as the red-bind, the green-bind, the white-bind. 1866 Treas. Bot. 602 Several varieties are known, the finest of which are the White Bines, etc. |
2. Entering into names of plants: e.g. woodbine. Cf. bind n. 3.
▪ II. bine
obs. form of bin, within.