tyne
see also: Tyne
Noun

tyne

  1. (obsolete) anxiety; teen
    • with labour and long tyne
Verb

tyne (tynes, present participle tyning; past and past participle tyned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lose.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
      ‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become lost; to perish.
Noun

tyne (plural tynes)

  1. Alternative form of tine

Tyne
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /taɪn/
  • (Geordie) IPA: /tɛin/
Proper noun
  1. A river in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear in north east England. The city of Newcastle upon Tyne is found upon its northern bank and Gateshead is found upon its southern bank
  2. A coastal sea area that includes the mouth of this river
  3. A river in East Lothian, in southern



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary