tyne

noun, verb — 3 senses

tyne

noun

/taɪn/

Etymology See teen.

1

Obsolete anxiety; teen

with labour and long tyne1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:

tyne

verb

Etymology See teen.

1

Obsolete To lose.

‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:

2

Obsolete To become lost; to perish.

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