teyne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tein

Etymology

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Noun

teyne

1. A thin plate of metal.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     a teyne of silver fyn

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: tain

References

• “teyne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.