Every week I exclaim, usually to myself, that's a great word, so I thought I'd start sharing some of them with you. Today's word is tines, which is one is the set of pointy bits on a fork. It is a delightfully onomatopoeic word, as I discovered today when cleaning our garden fork, after a satisfying afternoon in the sunshine tidying the garden for winter.
words I like: an occasional series - tines
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Tines are also the name of the "strings" in a Fender electric piano. Instead of having full-length strings, a Rhodes has spun-metal rods (which are about 6" and shorter in length IIRC) which are hit with hammers, and the vibration is picked up by pickups.
They're called tines, too.
Further conversation with Tom, unearthed this picture of the forklike insides of the Fender.