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单词 able to tine or win
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able to tine or win
c. absol. or intransitive: in early use esp. to get gain, make profit; spec. in Scottish legal use, in such phrases as able to tine or win, i.e. having means sufficient to aim at profit or risk loss. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)]
able to tine or win1340
to have (also get) beforehand1526
to keep (also hold, etc.) one's head above water1608
to pay one's way1786
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit
win1340
to wind the penny1546
vantage1563
to turn a profit1843
to do well out of1857
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1457 Now we wyn, now we tyn.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 153 Þauȝ ȝe ben trewe of tonge and treweliche winne, And eke as chast as a child.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19574 To win wit-all he wend it bij.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 133 A moral tale yet I yow telle kan Which I am wont to perche for to wynne.
1414 26 Pol. Poems xiii. 155 Wiþ fiȝt ȝe wynne, wiþ trete ȝe lese.
1421 26 Pol. Poems xviii. 138 Byȝe no thyng to selle and wynne.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 159 To wyn or to lese.
1476 Acta Audit. (1839) 47/1 To defend þe said causs of Errour..with ful powere to tyne and wynne.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 53 Be his procuratour constitute be him, in his place, to tine or to wone in the cause.
1699 in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1880) IV. 281 Ane person that..can tin and win in all ther affairs.
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