Tiller. The upper handle of a sawyer's long pit-saw. See Box.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Tiller out. To sprout out with several shoots, as wheat after being eaten off when young.—N. & S.W.
Timersome. Timid (A.S.).—N.W.
Tine. *(1) v. To light a fire or candle (A.C.). Tin'd (B.). Cf. A.S. tendan, on-tendan, to kindle, and E. tinder. *(2) To finish off a laid hedge or stake-fence by weaving in the top-band of boughs (A.B.). *(3) v. To divide or enclose a field with a hedge (A.B.C.). A.S. týnan.—N.W.
'To tine in a piece of waste ground is to enclose it with a fence of wood or quickset.'—Cunnington MS.
(4) n. A drag or harrow tooth (D.).—N.W. *(5) To give the ground two or three tinings is to draw the harrow two or three times over the same place. See Cope's Hants Gloss.
'They drag it two, three, or four times, and harrow it four, five, or six times, viz. (provincially speaking), they give it "so many tine with the drag, and so many with the harrow."'—Agric. of Wilts, ch. vii.
Ting-tang. A small church-bell (S.). See Tang.—N.W.
*Tining. (1) n. A new enclosure made with a dead hedge (D.H. Wr.).—N.W. (2) n. A fence of wood, either brushwood, pale, or quickset (C.).—N.W., obsolete.
Tippem, Tippum. A game played by six boys, three on each side of the table. The centre one 'works the piece,' i.e. passes it from hand to hand up and down under his side of the table. Then all the hands are placed on the table, and the opposite side guesses which hand the 'piece' is in, and scores or loses a mark according as the guess is right or wrong. The 'piece' may be anything available, from a knife to a pebble or bean.—N.W.