I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. Eugene Chadbourne
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep. Brad Meltzer
As good merchant tines as wins. Scottish Proverb
Many tines the half-mark whinger for the half-penny whang. Scottish Proverb
Ane never tines by doing good. Scottish Proverb
Leaves may be removed from stems either by scraping with the back of a knife, or by pulling through the fingers or tines of a fork. Source: Internet