Obs. exc. dial. [f. TINE v.1 + -ING1.] a. The action of TINE v.1; enclosing, fencing, hedging; making or repairing of a hedge. b. concr. A hedge or fence, esp. a new one made from dead thorns. c. attrib., as tining-gloves, gloves worn in repairing hedges, hedging-gloves.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 494/2. Tynynge, drye hedge, sepes.
1522. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb. Paied for tenyng of a hedge.
1546. in Boys Sandwich (1792), 80. Paid for tenyng and mendyng of gapps 10d.
1616. T. Adams, End of Thorns, Wks. 1862, II. 486. Men commonly deal with their sins as hedgers do when they go to plash thorn bushes; they put on tining gloves, that the thorns may not prick them.
1813. T. Davis, Agric. Wilts, Gloss., Tining, a new enclosure made with a dead hedge.
1894. Atkinson, Old Whitby, 53. He must do the ‘tyning’ or fencing-in with stoup or stake, and wattle or brush.
