TINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tine mean? 

• TINE (noun)
  The noun TINE has 1 sense:

1. prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler

  Familiarity information: TINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tine" is a kind of...):

prong (a pointed projection)

Holonyms ("tine" is a part of...):

fork (cutlery used for serving and eating food)

pitchfork (a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay)

 Context examples 

By my faith, sirs, he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)