Obs. rare. Also 8 tin-. An unidentified ‘worm,’ said to be injurious to sheep; ? = TAINT-WORM.
1587. Mascall, Govt. Cattle (1596), 15. Against the swelling in a beast by eating of a Tyne-worme. Ibid., 250. The tine worme is a small red worme with many legs, much like a hog lowse, and they will creepe in grasse: if sheepe or other cattell do eate one, they will swell and within a day die, if he be not remedied.
1704. Dict. Rust., Tinworm.
