Word.ws English Dictionary

tind

/ˈtɪnd/

tind verb: to ignite, kindle.

Verb

tind (third-person singular simple present tinds, present participle tinding, simple past and past participle tinded or tind)

  1. (obsolete) To ignite, kindle.
    • Her harty wondes so deepe into the mynd / Of the yong Damzell sunke, that great desire / Of warlike armes in her forthwith they tynd [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

tind (plural tinds)

  1. A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
  2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.

Forms of tind

Verb
third-person singular presenttinds
present participletinding
past participletinded
pasttinded
past participletind
pasttind
alternative formtynd
alternative formteend
alternative formtine
alternative formteen
Noun
pluraltinds

Origin of tind

From earlier tend, from Middle English tenden, teenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle”) (usually attested in compounds); related to Danish tænde, German zünden, Norwegian bokmål tenne. More at tend (sense 3).

From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind (“tine, prong, tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Dutch tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). Cf. the related tine. Also more distantly related to Dutch tand (“tooth, tine”), English tooth.

Words that rhyme with tind

10 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tind

What does tind mean?
Tind means to ignite, kindle.
What part of speech is tind?
Tind can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce tind?
Tind is pronounced /ˈtɪnd/.
What is the past tense of tind?
The past tense of tind is tinded.

Words near tind in the dictionary

  1. tinctureth
  2. tincturing
  3. tincturings
  4. Tincup
  5. Tincy
  6. tind
  7. tinda
  8. tindal
  9. Tindale
  10. Tindales
  11. Tindall

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tind.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tind. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.