Also 4–5 bynde, 8–9 bind. [A dial. form of BIND sb., recently adopted as the literary form in the following senses.]
1. A flexible shoot of any shrub, a shoot of the year’s growth; the flexible stem of a climbing plant.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 186. When the crop is heavy, the lower parts of the bines [of vetches] will be less inviting than the upper part.
1880. Standard, 12 Nov. The first frosts … shrivel the bines of white bryony.
1880. Jefferies, Gr. Ferne F., 194. A trailing bine of honeysuckle.
b. spec. The climbing stem of the hop.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Hop Gard., When you find the Binds very vigorous … you must forbear giving them any more Earth.
a. 1845. Hood, Ode R. Wilson. What Kentish boor would tear away the prop So roughly as to wound, nay, kill the bine?
1864. Tennyson, Aylmer’s F., 112. When burr and bine were gather’d.
1884. G. Allen, in Longm. Mag., V. 43. The ‘fly’ … on hops, is an aphis specialized for that particular bine.
c. Hence, used to name varieties of the Hop; e.g., White-bine (formerly -bind, corruptly -vine).
1732. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Lupulus, The grey Bind … is a large square Hop.
1835. Penny Mag., 453. The hop-plant … has several varieties, such as the red-bind, the green-bind, the white-bind.
1866. Treas. Bot., 602. Several varieties are known, the finest of which are the White Bines, etc.
2. Entering into names of plants: e.g., WOODBINE. Cf. BIND sb. 3.
