Sentence example with the word 'tined'

tined

acanthoid, acuate, acuminate, cornuted, hispid, mucronate, pointed, spiculate, spined, tapered, unbated

Definition adj. having prongs or tines

Last update: October 10, 2015


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In the deer of the sambar group, where the antlers never advance beyond a three-tined type, the shedding is frequently, if not invariably, very irregular; but in the majority at least of the species with complex antlers the replacement is annual, the new appendages attaining their full development immediately before the pairing-season.   [Please select]

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Boat crews clashed; half-clad men cursed each other and fought with naked fists, with oars and clubs; and when these failed, they drove at one another with wicked one-tined fish "pues."   [Please select]

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This last is nothing very wonderful to an American, but is remarkable in France, where the average cook usually does the work quite as efficiently with a two-tined fork, or something which greatly resembles a chop-stick.   [Please select]

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It is a deer nearly as large as the red deer of Europe, with 3-tined antlers about equal in total length to those of the red deer.   [Please select]

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The speaker, a heavy-shouldered, long-legged backwoodsman, paused in his task of digging potatoes, leaned on the handle of his broad-tined digging fork, and bit off a liberal chew from his plug of black tobacco.   [Please select]

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And the Gray Men, with their eyes fixed upon their master, nodded all their hundred heads and put their hands upon the dangerous three-tined forks that were stuck in every one of the hundred belts.   [Please select]

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