Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English variant of
tain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A thin plate of metal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A thin plate of metal.
Etymologies
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See tain.
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Examples
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Thow wenyst he be thy frend; he ys thy foo c {er} teyne; 12
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Wherein, when I behold the heavie weight of so many grave and great affaires which the special dutie of his place, as principall secretaries doth daylie and necessarilie cast upon hym j and do noate withall, what infinite cares, crosses, laboures, and travells of body and minde, he doth thereby contynewallie sus - teyne and undergo.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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