tres-tyne
English
Etymology
Latin tris, tres (“three”) + English tyne.
Noun
tres-tyne (plural tres-tynes)
- (zoology) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 tres-tyne in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)