Tine vs Tongs - What's the difference?
tine | tongs |
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb
A small branch, especially on an antler or horn
(obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
* Spenser
To kindle; to set on fire.
* Dryden
* Spenser
(obsolete) To rage; to smart.
* Spenser
(English plurals) An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs ;.
(lb) (English plurals) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
(tong)
As nouns the difference between tine and tongs
is that tine is a spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb while tongs is (plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals) An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.As verbs the difference between tine and tongs
is that tine is to kindle; to set on fire while tongs is third-person singular of tong.tine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tind''. Cognate with German ''Zinne .Noun
(en noun)See also
* prong * tooth * toolEtymology 2
See .Noun
- Cruel winter's tine .
Etymology 3
See tind.Verb
(tin)- to tine the cloven wood
- coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd
- Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine .