different between tine vs billhook

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz. Cognate with German Zinne. Compare also the related English tind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n
• Homophone: Tyne

Noun

tine (plural tines)

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,^[1]

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
3. (dialect) A wild vetch or tare.

Translations

See also

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Etymology 2

Unknown origin, possibly related to etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• tyne

Adjective

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)

1. small, diminutive

Derived terms

• tiny

Etymology 3

See teen (“affliction”).

Noun

tine

1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

Etymology 4

See tind.

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To kindle; to set on fire.
   • 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan, from t?n (“enclosure”) (modern town).

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To shut in, or enclose.
   • 1852, Alfred Committee (translator), Alfred the Great, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388:

     When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]

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Derived terms

• betine

Anagrams

• Tien, neti, nite, tein

Aromanian

Pronoun

tine

1. Alternative form of tini

Irish

Alternative forms

• teine (dated)

Etymology

From Old Irish teine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n??/

Noun

tine f (genitive singular tine or tineadh, nominative plural tinte or tintreacha)

1. fire

Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "tine" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “teine” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 730.
• Entries containing “tine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Noun

t?ne

1. vocative singular of t?nus

Middle English

Determiner

tine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

tine (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þíðna.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tinar/tiner, past tense tina/tinte, past participle tina/tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to thaw

Etymology 2

Through French from Latin tina (“wine-vessel”). Akin to Danish tejne.

Noun

tine f (definite singular tina, indefinite plural tiner, definite plural tinene)

1. a traditional bentwood box

Etymology 3

From Old Norse tína.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tiner, past tense tinte, past participle tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
2. to remove the awn from the grain
3. to extract a nut from its shell

References

• “tine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• eint, -inet, IT-en, nite, tein, tien, Tine

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin t?, as with mine, sine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti.ne/

Pronoun

tine (stressed accusative form of tu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as pe, cu, la, or pentru) you

Related terms

• te (unstressed form)

See also

• mine
• sine

Yola

Alternative forms

• theene

Etymology

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan.

Verb

tine

1. to shut, close

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• bill-hook
• bill hook

Etymology

Earliest use in weapon (and later, agricultural) sense, bill (a bladed pike) +? hook; other senses formed anew from various meanings of bill.

Noun

billhook (plural billhooks)

1. (weaponry) A medieval polearm with a similar construct, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill
2. An agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
   • 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38

     I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

   • 1887, Hardy, The Woodlanders, chapter 19:

     With a small billhook he carefully freed the collar of the tree from twigs and patches of moss which incrusted it to a height of a foot or two above the ground, an operation comparable to the "little toilet" of the executioner's victim.

3. Written as bill-hook: a part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
4. Written as bill hook: a spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
5. (ornithology) Written as bill hook: a sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.

Synonyms

• handbill, pruning hook, hack, hacker, hedging bill, hedging-bill, hedge bill, bill, broom hook, block hook, Yorkshire bill, vine hook

Descendants

• ? Irish: bileog
• ? Welsh: bilwg

Translations

Verb

billhook (third-person singular simple present billhooks, present participle billhooking, simple past and past participle billhooked)

1. To use a billhook

Anagrams

• hookbill