bine

American  

[bahyn] / baɪn /

noun

1. a twining plant stem, as of the hop.

2. any bindweed.

3. woodbine.

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bine British  

/ baɪn /

noun

1. the climbing or twining stem of any of various plants, such as the woodbine or bindweed

2. any plant with such a stem

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Etymology

Origin of bine

First recorded in 1720–30; variant of bind

Example Sentences

Some breweries will use hops straight off the bine for a beer known as a harvest, or wet hop brew.

From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2021

While the brewers can use pelletized hops year-round, now is the season where they can actually get them fresh off the bine - which was what both Upland and Dean prefer.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2017

While the brewers can use pelletized hops year-round, now is the season where they can actually get them fresh off the bine — which was what both Upland and Dean prefer.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2017

That apparently ended the legal troubles that had dogged Cornfeld for seven years since the fall of I.O.S., which he started in the 1950s and built into the world's largest offshore investment com bine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore, as the old saying is,— "Farmer, that thy wife may thrive, Let not burr and burdock wive; And if thou wouldst keep thy son, See that bine and gith have none."

From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)