Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tineman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tine-man
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.

British usage; Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Canute himself appointed various officers—Primarii, our Verderers; Lespegend, our Regarders; and Tinemen, our Keepers. The offences of hunting, wounding, or killing a deer, striking a verderer or regarder, cutting vert, are all minutely specified in his Forest Law, and punished, according to rank and other circumstances, with different degrees of severity."
"The tinemen and verderers have not forgotten me yet, and my larder is ever full."

Etymology

Probably akin to tine (“to shut or enclose”).

Usage

British usage
Obsolete

Inflected Forms

tinemen (plural)

Questions

What does tineman mean?: A low-ranking officer of the forest who was responsible for vert and venison by night.
Where does tineman come from?: Probably akin to tine (“to shut or enclose”).

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