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tineman

tineman noun: a low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.

Noun

tineman (plural tinemen)

  1. (UK, historical, obsolete) A low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.
    • Canute himself appointed various officers—Primarii, our Verderers; Lespegend, our Regarders; and Tinemen, our Keepers. The offences of hunting, wounding, or killing a deer, striking a verderer or regarder, cutting vert, are all minutely specified in his Forest Law, and punished, according to rank...1863, John Richard de Capel Wise, The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery
    • The tinemen and verderers have not forgotten me yet, and my larder is ever full.1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC

Forms of tineman

pluraltinemen

Origin of tineman

Probably akin to tine (“to shut or enclose”).

Questions about tineman

What does tineman mean?
Tineman means a low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.
What part of speech is tineman?
Tineman is a noun.
What is the plural of tineman?
The plural of tineman is tinemen.

Words near tineman in the dictionary

  1. tined
  2. Tineg
  3. tineid
  4. tineids
  5. Tinel's sign
  6. tineman
  7. tinemen
  8. tinene
  9. Tineo
  10. tineodid
  11. tineodids

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