A pointed prong or spike, especially the thin pointed parts on a fork used for eating or farming.
From Old English 'tind,' related to Old Norse 'tindr' meaning 'point' or 'spike.' The word has remained relatively unchanged since Old English.
A fork's tines are named after the Old English word for a pointed stick—when forks became popular in Europe, people borrowed the name from their old tool vocabulary!
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