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Meanings of tined in English

Having prongs or tines; usually used in combination.

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Usage of tined in English
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The broad trail divided, like a three-tined candlestick, into narrow trails.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
2
One afternoon Billy Buck leaned the many-tined manure fork against the barn wall.
The red pony
3
In 1956, the five-tined Swiss Army pie fork with fish fork attatchment is designed.
The new yorker
4
He was also brandishing a wicked-looking three-tined wooden fork.
The talisman
5
Will you hand me that three-tined pitchfork over there?
The Day of the Dog
6
Cainy and I haven't tined our eyes to-night.
Far from the Madding Crowd
7
Two-tined forks and a battered old hoe.
The half-made world
8
This hollowed-out foot served to hold several pokers and other useful fireplace implements, including a six-tined toasting fork.
Rogues
9
Sparky brandishes a three-tined yellow pitchfork.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
10
Besides, the ground would be deeply worked with the two or four tined hoe, at the time of thinning.
Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, ...
11
Each held a three-tined pitchfork.
For Love Of Evil
12
And there she sat, at a table made of pine boards, eating boiled potatoes with a two-tined steel fork!
Four Girls at Chautauqua
13
Tin cups and platters made humble substitution for china, and were appropriately accompanied by cast-iron knives and two tined forks.
The Red Acorn
14
The moment they were in place, the glistening pods flattened themselves a bit and then punctured the tubes with their eight-tined data-forks.
Mech
15
When the three-tined fork was the only one in common use, the blade of the knife was much more in requisition than now.
The Etiquette of To-day
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It looked, thought Shandy dazedly, as if God had leaned down from heaven and swiped a sharp-tined rake across the boat a few times.
On Stranger Tides
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