Meanings
plural teinds · alternative tiend
- ScotlandA tithe.
That in the cale where the Teind was set separately from the Stock, the Duty was commonly far above the true Value of what was paid for the Teind
1731, Alexander Baine, Notes, for the Use of the Students of the Municipal Law in1 more example
What have I been paying stipend and teind parsonage and vicarage for, ever sin' the aughty-nine, an' I canna get a spell of a prayer for't, the only time I ever asked for ane in my life?
1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 195
Origin
- Middle Englishtende
- Scotsteind“tenth”
- Englishteind
From Scots teind (“tenth”), from Middle English tende, variant of tenthe (“tenth”); see that entry for more.
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teind. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teind
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