1894 Brewer’s / T / Tine-man (The)
The Earl of Douglas, who died 1424. (See Sir W. Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, chap. xviii.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.