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noun
A prong or something projecting like a prong; an animal's horn; a branch or limb of a tree; a protruding arm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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verb
To ignite, kindle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind (“tine, prong, tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3dénts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Dutch tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). Cf. the related tine. Also more distantly related to Dutch tand (“tooth, tine”), English tooth.
From earlier tend, from Middle English tenden, teenden, from Old English tendan (“to kindle”) (usually attested in compounds); related to Danish tænde, German zünden, Norwegian bokmål tenne. More at tend (sense 3).
