tine

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++tine /taɪn/ noun [countable]  a pointed part of something that has several points, for example a fork 〔叉等的〕尖头，尖齿

Examples from the Corpus

tine• Walking through the old foundations, you discover broken bits of dinner plates and an occasional fork with its tines splayed.• Nor was it easy to design and make the two or more prongs or tines that distinguished the fork.• In its panic it broke its antlers, shard by shard, tine by tine.• One of the tines had been broken recently, possibly in an encounter with another bull, or perhaps with a tree.Origin tine Old English tind

tine nounChinese  

that of points, a part pointed has Corpus several something

tine
tine /taɪn/ noun [countable]a pointed part of something that has several points, for example a fork

tineBrE /taɪn/ 🔊NAmE /taɪn/ 🔊 noun (specialist)

any of the points or sharp parts of, for example, a fork or the antlers of a deer （叉子等的）尖头，尖齿；（鹿角的）分叉