Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with tines: used especially in combination: as, three -tined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with tines.
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- adjective Furnished with
tines .
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- adjective having prongs or tines; usually used in combination
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tall-tined buck is rumored to sport a gross score of 210-6/8.
Wisconsin Senator Demands Firing of State Deer Managers 2009
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The tall-tined beauty scored over 150 P&Y, and fell after Greg made a 28-yard shot with his bow.
Mail Call! 2009
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The tall-tined buck is rumored to sport a gross score of 210-6/8.
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With an authentic Irish barman at the helm I could decompress ensconced in deep walnut walls, ambient lighting and bronze tined ceilings.
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But as the lurkers in the trees signalled along their half seen ranks and closed all together in a sudden surge into the open at the edge of the ford, one man rose out of the bushes opposite and bestrode the grassy shelf of the shore, brandishing a long, two-tined pikel lashed to a six-foot pole, and sweeping the ford with it at breast height.
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Well, well, laugh as you please, we are des-tined, you and I.
Watershed 2010
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“Lo,” she said, brandishing her three-tined smork in the ancient gestures.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: the Dreaded Data-Dump 2010
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Inspired by an old-time, multi-tined cultivating tool, CobraHead also can be used to loosen the soil around plants, called cultivation, or to draw a line in the soil when sowing seeds.
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Its sharp, strong, single spade-shaped end scarifies efficiently with less resistance than a wide hoe or a multi-tined tool.
Seasonal gardening gifts: Where innovation meets practicality Joel M. Lerner 2010
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If ever a nation seemed des-tined to fail, it was Rwanda.
Africa’s New Path 2009
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