tined, a.
(taɪnd)
Also 5–6 tynyd, 6 tinded, 7 tyned.
[f. tine n.1 (or v.3) + -ed.]
Furnished with or having tines. a. Of a fork, rake, harrow, or other implement. Chiefly in comb., as long-tined, three-tined, etc.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/1 Tynyd, wythe a tyne. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §15 They be lyke sloted and tinded. 1577 Harrison England iii. viii. (1878) ii. 53 The heads of saffron are raised in Iulie, either with plough, raising, or tined hooke. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. v. 58 In his hand for a Scepter, a Mace three-tined, as Neptune or God of the Sea. 1698 G. Thomas Pensilvania 8 Their Ground is harrowed with Wooden Tyned Harrows. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. S.-W. Lincs. 154 He was charged with stealing a steel-tined fork. 1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 84 There was plenty to interest traditionalists, particularly among tined implements. |
b. Of a deer's horns. In quot. 1530 Her. having the tines of a specified tincture.
| c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, An hert þat bereth an hye heede þat is wyde and hye ytyneded with longe beemes. 1530 in Ancestor xi. (1904) 182 A hertes hede silver tynyd gold. 1878 S. Lanier Rev. Hamish 1 A ten-tined buck in the bracken lay. 1902 Times 13 Nov. 13/6 A goodly proportion of strongly tined heads. |