tineman

English

Etymology

Probably akin to tine (“to shut or enclose”).

Noun

tineman (plural tinemen)

1. (obsolete, UK, law) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tineman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Imtenan, Tianmen, Tiemann, antimen, mannite