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tinemen

tinemen is the plural of tineman.

Meaning of tineman

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

Questions about tinemen

What is tinemen the plural of?
Tinemen is the plural of tineman.

Words near tinemen in the dictionary

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

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