pine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

   The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.

2. 2
   noun

   A pineapple.

   "[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.

3. 3
   noun

   The bench, where players sit when not playing.

   […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.

4. 4
   noun

   A counter or bartop.

   I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!

5. 5
   verb

   To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

   Why pine not I, and die in this distress?

6. 6
   verb

   To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

   Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.

7. 7
   verb

   To inflict pain upon; to torment.

   Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.

8. 8
   noun

   a coniferous tree

Etymology

From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain. Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pīnōn, Old Norse pína.