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tined

tined adjective: furnished with tines. Also the simple past and past participle of tine.

Adjective

tined (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with tines.
    • a three-tined fork
    • And the Gray Men, with their eyes fixed upon their master, nodded all their hundred heads and put their hands upon the dangerous three-tined forks that were stuck in every one of the hundred belts.1903, L. Frank Baum, The Enchanted Island of Yew

Also used as

tined is also the simple past and past participle of tine.

Origin of tined

From tine + -ed.

Questions about tined

What does tined mean?
Tined means furnished with tines.
What part of speech is tined?
Tined is an adjective.

Words near tined in the dictionary

  1. tinea versicolor
  2. tinea versicolour
  3. tineae
  4. tineal
  5. tineas
  6. tined
  7. Tineg
  8. tineid
  9. tineids
  10. Tinel's sign
  11. tineman

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