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  • The hands _tyned, tened_, closed, or shut in, signified _ten_; for there numeration _closed_.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • The marsh and jungle swarmed with peacocks, jungle-fowl, and wild-fowl of all sorts, affording glorious sport; and, besides the smaller kinds of deer, several specimens occurred of a magnificent species of stag with twelve-tyned horns, called _baru-singa_ -- apparently allied to the _sambur_ and _rusa_ of the Dekkan.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • "If ye rear your back to a door, see to it that it be greatly tyned, or ye may get a broken head for trust."

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • I am thinking, may be they would not have tyned their coals — and her to gar her ne’er-do-weel son shoot a gentleman Cameron!

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • “I was in the wood at Tyninghame when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back — a stout old Trojan of the first head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e’er a bullock’s.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • If ye set your back to a door, see that it be tyned, or ye may get a broken head, and then "----

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • "I was in the wood at Tyninghame when there was a sort of gallants hunting with my lord; on my saul, there was a buck turned to bay made us all stand back -- a stout old Trojan of the first head, ten-tyned branches, and a brow as broad as e'er a bullock's.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

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