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Definition of Teening
1. teene [v] - See also: teene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teening
Literary usage of Teening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period, Including an by Henry Sweet (1879)
"See Candle-teening. ' Wash your hands, or else the fire Will not teend to your
desire ... 21. Compare tinder, tinder-box. See note 10, p. 59. teening-bottle ..."
2. Specimens of English Dialects: I. Devonshire: an Exmoor Scolding and Courtship by William Hutton, Walter William Skeat (1879)
"See Candle-teening. ' Wash your hands, or else the fire Will not teend to your
desire.' ' Part must be kept wherewith to teend The Christmas log next yeare. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Kelter, order, condition. " In bad kelter." Kendle-teening, candle-lighting teen it.
... -teening when yung time. To light a candle is to Mall ..."
4. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"... -teening, candle-lighting time. To light a candle is to teen it. "
"Twas kendle-teening when yung Mall ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"teening with interest to the historian and philosopher, to the lover of daring
enterprise and marvellous adventure it is full of fascination. ..."
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