dial. form (chiefly Kentish) of TINE (OE. týnan) to fence, hedge in, make a hedge with raddles: see TINE. Hence Teenage, Teenet, -it, brushwood for fences and hedges; Teener, a man who teens or keeps in order a raddle fence; Teen-hedge, a pleached or raddle hedge.
c. 1700. Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 389. To *Teen (Lanc. to Tine), to hedge or to enclose a field, in Kent the longer wood cut for the use of hedghing is calld *Teenage.
1705. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Teenage, (Country-word) Brush-wood for Hedges or Fences.
1902. Kentish Express, 29 March, 10/2 (N. & Q., 10th Ser. XI. 57/2). For sale, stakes, binders, *tenet, peasticks, good cheap, to clear.
1616. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb. For bread and drink for the *teners and wood-makers. Ibid. (1638), Payd … for brishinge of the *teene-hedge downe js. vjd.
