Obs. Also 6 tynage, 7 tynaxe; and in Sp, forms tina·ja, tina·xa, tinaio (i.e., tinajo). [ad. Sp. tinaja, † tinaxa = It. tinaccio, augmentatives of tina and tino, L. tīna wine-vessel.] A large earthenware jar.
1574. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Fam. Ep. (1584), 241. His souldiers … haue drunke out a whole tinage of wine.
1582. N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., I. xlix. 106. Sixe great Tynages of fine Earth, which they doe call Porcelanas.
1598. W. Phillip, Linschoten, I. vi. 16/2. The water that they drinke … they keepe in great pots (as the Tinaios in Spaine).
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea, xii. 25. The Inhabitants doe reserue water … in their Cisterns and Tynaxes.
1676. Lady Fanshawe, Mem. (1830), 195. That admirable wine is kept in great tinajas, which are pots holding about 500 gallons each.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. 231/1. At Coria are made the enormous earthenware jars in which oil and olives are kept: these tinajas are the precise amphoræ of the ancients.
